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N.Y. city turns to hazing crows away
Associated Press
Published January 16, 2005
AUBURN, N.Y. - In a city where a huge flock of crows has been pestering people for years, officials are fighting back with a hazing program aimed at disrupting the birds' sleep with noise and light and driving them into the countryside.
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Environmental Conservation started harassing the crows Monday and were to continue through the week using handheld lasers, pyrotechnics and amplified crow distress calls.
"They are beautiful creatures, and we don't want to hurt them. We just want them out of our downtown," said Mayor Timothy Lattimore.
The invasion began about 15 years ago when more than 50,000 crows started wintering in this small upstate city 20 miles west of Syracuse - outnumbering the human population of 28,574. Residents complain that the crows are noisy and soil the city with feces and drive off other songbirds.
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