A reader writes in to bring attention to bird traps on the Mercadona upper-parking in Salobreña.
Has anybody seen the dove trap on the roof of Mercadona Salobreña, on the upper parking deck? The birds can enter only one way into the small cage, then they are trapped.
According to the staff of Mercadona, they catch the ‘dirty birds;’ I guess in order to kill them. This is not ok.
If there would not be so much trash and food packages left, there wouldn’t be the doves either.
This open display of animal cruelty shall not go unnoticed.
Anybody any idea how to help? Maybe, you can publish this with a picture in Seaside Gazette to rise awareness?
Thank you
Andy
True they are a pain. !!
But. A big but, here. They will tend to eat on scraps or food debri. Dropped by our more ignorant members of society. The same ones that leave say. Burger King, Mac Donalds or any fast food place and Chuck their rubbish out of the car. So do we blame the birds. Foxes. or rats for living off the debri left by twats. ??
Of course all creatures serve some useful purpose and pigeons are no different….. there may be more of them than ideal mainly because many humans leave so much edible mess about
I hesitate to question Sunday’s homework, but Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae) says they’re the same family but that there are 344 species (13 extinct) and the smaller ones in English are called doves but other languages call them all the same.
But even the same family was news to me so thanks for the education lesson today.
I’d like one of these traps, assuming they are legal.
I fully agree that pigeons are a pest and carry disease – well done Mercadona!
Martin, that’s a lot of homework for a Sunday morning! My apologies to Andrea for assuming gender, but my feelings towards doves/pigeons remains the same. Vermin!
Peter: Andy is short for Andrea.
I looked up the difference between doves and pigeons and I was surprised to learn that there is no difference; i.e., they’re the same species.
The difference is that the word ‘Dove’ comes to us from Old Norse and ‘Pigeon’ came to us from French… for the same creature, so it has nothing to do with their colour as most of us believe.
Doves just have better press.
Anyway, yes the traps are for what are commonly known as pigeons.
He calls it a dove trap. I think it’s aim is to catch pigeons, which are flying, disease spreading rats, so that they don’t get into the shop. Well done Mercadona