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City Official: SI Ferry Pigeons Need Birth Control

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Oct 30, 2007 3:51 pm US/Eastern

City Official: SI Ferry Pigeons Need Birth Control

Contraception May Help Reduce Proliferation Of 'Dirty Birds'

NEW YORK (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Residents in Hollywood became fed up with pigeons mass producing, so they put them on birth control. City councilman James Oddo suggests the same for the Staten Island Ferry terminal.
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A city official is suggesting birth control for dirty birds that congregate around the Staten Island Ferry terminal.

Borrowing an idea from Hollywood, City Councilman James Oddo says contraception may help to reduce the proliferation of pigeons at the St. George terminal on Staten Island.

He says the use of a product called OvoControl P in rooftop bird feeders is supported by animal protection groups and has been proposed to the city departments of environmental protection and transportation. State environmental experts have it under study.

Oddo says it appears OvoControl P "might be a tool we can use long-term to eliminate this problem in a humane fashion."