Birds from all over the country have started migrating south as winter sets in across the country. Places like Lubbock give these wide variety of birds a safe temporary home to survive.
“A lot of these birds find a little sanctuary in town,” said Aaron Sisson, a Wildlife Biologist at Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Although a sanctuary to the birds, some local residents are finding the mass amount of new “visitors” to be a bit much. Some places have resulted in poisoning the birds to get rid of them.
“They have to find someway to manage pigeon numbers,” said Sisson.
Even though managing them is important, Sisson says not everyone can poison legally.
“If anyone is having pest problems I would recommend reaching out to parks and wildlife if it is deemed necessary,” said Sisson.
Sisson believes that companies and homeowners should look for other options rather than poisoning the birds.
“You can set up owl decoys, motion sensors that play sounds of predators. I personally feel like those are better options than to try and harass the birds rather than poisoning them,” said Sisson.
