Sick birds upset city visitors.
Australasian Business Intelligence, April, 2003
Apr 20, 2003 (The West Australian – ABIX via COMTEX)
A tourist visiting Perth, Western Australia, has complained about the Perth City Council’s pigeon culling program. Melbourne visitor David Armstrong said that he had witnessed approximately 20 birds in a Perth street on 20 April 2003, which looked to be suffering unnecessarily after they had ingested some sort of poison. Armstrong said that he understood the birds had to be culled, but was disgusted by the method used to kill them. He said that the incident had been very distressing
pest control melbourne birds