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Pigeons lose out on square meals
PIGEON post-mortem tests carried out by a government laboratory show birds in Trafalgar Square are starving.
The Veterinary Laboratories Agency examined five corpses taken from the square in October and found them to be in poor condition.
The report said: “All were found to be in poor bodily condition and although in some of the birds there was evidence of recent feeding... the gizzard of all birds was empty.”
Pigeon Action Group said the feeding ban – introduced by the Mayor’s Greater London Authority – had cut the flock from 4,500 to 300.
Julia Fletcher of PAG said: “While the mayor is reporting that the programme to reduce the birds is working well, the reality is that these birds have been subjected to a long, agonising death by starvation.”
A spokesman for the authority said: “The GLA considers that it has at all times acted responsibly and fairly.” |
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