Tag: Geese
Jim Reed, Governors Island’s director of park and public space, adopted a 5-year-old border collie named Max and molded his natural talent, sensei-like, into the Island’s first line of defense against geese that eat too much grass and poop all over the place. “Our turfs are getting decimated [by the geese],” Reed told DNAinfo. “They […]
The goose roundup of 2013 is officially on. David Karopkin–the man behind GooseWatch NYC–recorded this video of the birds being gathered for slaughter in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife reserve. According to the New York Times, which published the video, the USDA targeted 500 birds for killing today. R.I.P., 500 innocent geese. […]
Here’s the first documented goose slaughter of 2013’s molting season. Volunteers with GooseWatch NYC encountered a roundup of about 10 birds and their goslings in progress at Inwood Hill Park this morning and snapped the above photo as USDA agents were leaving. The city contracts the USDA to kill off geese each year in an attempt […]
Every good organization deserves a good logo, so after ANIMAL profiled GooseWatch NYC earlier this week, we decided to do a little pro-bono, unsolicited design work for the volunteer group. In an attempt to curtail incidents of birds interfering with airplane flight, the City of New York and the USDA began slaughtering geese in NYC’s […]
Summertime is almost here, which, for New York City’s goose population, means it’s molting season. Ordinarily, it’s a time for the birds to shed their wing and tail feathers and grow new ones in preparation for migration. But since 2009, when a gaggle of migratory geese led to the “Miracle on the Hudson” emergency plane […]
