University Daily Kansan, October 10, 1980
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Pigeons' deaths arouse sympathy of Watkins hall residents
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
Somehow, William Blake never hit upon, "Pigeon! Pigeon! Burning it," and "Bird! Bird! In fact, most people don't seem to be inspired by birds, just bothered.
But being a bother doesn't merit slow death, according to Karen Hall, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore.
Hall lives in Watkins Scholarship Hall, where she said pigeons were being
injured by metal spikes on the top of the building's pillars
"I's real gross," Hall said. "I didn't like the pigeons to begin with, but that doesn't mean I'd like to see them all die."
JIM MATHES, ASSISTANT director of landscape maintenance for facilities operations, said the spikes were not put in place but it is but to prevent them from roosting.
The pigeons had been leaving unsightly messes at the bottom of the white pillars of Watkins, Mathes said, and the gardener got tired of it. He
called facilities operations, and they put up the spikes at the beginning of the
Mates said he was not aware that the pigeons were running into the plate.
"I don't think they're that stupid," he said. "guess they could be."
Jefri Hines, resident director of Watkins, said she could not prove that the pigeons were dying because of the spikes.
"I never saw a bird impale himself," she said. "All I know is that there was a bird impaled on my shoulder."
MATHES SAID THAT facilities operations tried to prevent pigeon proliferation by stopping the birds from roosting, not by killing them.
"If you eliminate their places to roost, you eliminate the problem," he said.
There are other problems with the birds, Hines said. Pigeons can spread diseases. The office of housing sprayed or for possible bird mites yesterday.
"I don't mind the pigeons fluttering around at all," Hines said. "I am concerned if they are spreading around
mites, because the mites carry infectious diseases."
PIGEONS CAN CAUSE health problems, especially if their droppings are allowed to accumulate, according to Dick Hack, director of environmental health at the Lawrence Douglas County Health Department.
Hack said that if a large number of birds congregated in the same area for years, the droppings could breed a disease and result in a biosis of the lungs, a respiratory disease.
Any bird droppings can cause the disease, he said, but pigeons are a
problem because they stay in one place.
"Most of your other birds are kind of here today and gone tomorrow, but pigeons will settle down in a tree or something and stay there." Hack said.
He said that no major health problems because of pigeons had been reported to the health department this year.
He said that a new birth control substance could be added to their food supply, or a substance that would make them sick. The Office of Housing does not use poisons, he said, and had not tried the birth control substance.
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