WANT TO PROTECT PALE MALE AND LOLA AND ALL URBAN HAWKS? PROTECT THEIR PREY BASE, VOTE YES!..NOW

I just moments ago, received an Alert from the New York City Bird Club

PALE MALE AND LOLA ON THEIR FIFTH AVENUE NEST-
THE CITY PIGEON CONSTITUTES THE BULK OF THEIR DIET, OVER 80%.
NO PIGEONS? LIKELY NO PALE MALE AND LOLA


2008- THE RIVERSIDE DAD BRINGS A PIGEON TO FEED HIS THREE TINY EYASSES
One day when there wasn't a pigeon available for the young to eat, he brought them a rat that he had caught. It is thought that the rat had eaten rat poison so inadvertently the three beautiful eyasses were poisoned as well and died in the nest.

As many of you know, I find the urban feral pigeon to be a beautiful hardy non-competing-with-native-bird exotic (research backs me up) that is falsely maligned and well worth giving a helping hand. But even if you don't like pigeons without them there will be no urban hawks. Without pigeons, urban hawks likely won't have enough to eat! Or enough daytime prey to feed their young.

Up until not long ago, the feral pigeon did have the protection of the Migratory Treaty Act. Since the pigeon has been removed from it's protection and many ill-informed city politicians have begun plans to eradicate them.

In New York City, and I don't doubt most if not all other urban Red-tailed Hawk territories, the major prey base, in fact well over 80% of urban hawk food in NYC , is the urban Pigeon. As cities continue and promote programs to eradicate the urban pigeon, they also jeopardize the urban Hawks. Rats will not be a substitute. Even as an additional food to the hawk diet, too many Red-tails are poisoned. The three eyasses of the Riverside Nest in NYC are just a single example.


A vote for the pigeons is a vote for the lives of urban hawks. Do it as you love the hawks and do it now as this is time sensitive.

And open up your email address book and spread the word!

FROM THE NEW YORK CITY BIRD CLUB

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Subject: Change the Legal Status of the Feral Pigeon to Protected
I wanted to see if I could get your quick help. I'm not sure if you've heard, but there's a movement of citizens inspired by the presidential campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think the Obama Administration should change America. It's called "Ideas for Change in America."

I've submitted an idea and wanted to see if you could quickly vote for it. The title is: Change the Legal Status of the Feral Pigeon. You can read and vote for the idea by clicking on the following link:

(Once you click and get to change.org....In the box "Search Ideas", type in-protect the feral pigeon. Then two boxes will come up. They will say "Search Ideas" Protect the feral pigeon and the second box is "Within Cause"-Type in-Environmental Conservation. D.B.)
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/change_the_legal_status_of_the_feral_pigeon


The top 10 ideas are going to be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a real chance at becoming policy.

Thanks for the support,
Anna Dove

This idea is currently in 129th Place in Environmental Conservation and needs 487 more votes to make it into the second round.

D.B. When I looked a moment ago, it was in 58th place with 12 votes. The number of ideas has increased exponentially. This idea still needs 400 plus votes to make the second round. We can do it.