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Pigeons live ‘at the edge of chaos,’ researchers confirm (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

DDT really did a number on urban avian predators; it gets concentrated up the food chain and then the eggs of birds become too fragile.

I haven't checked in for a few years, but I think New York City was making efforts to reintroduce them.

And it's funny to me to have an environmental initiative largely motivated by "something needs to be killing all these fucking pigeons."

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

they mostly remediated that at least for wild birds eggs.