Pigeons are controversial. Send in the falcons. 🦅
On the other hand, they defecate.It is this activity that has led to the pigeons’ current public relations crisis. People don’t like to be pooped on.The San Juan Capistrano resident has been running his company, Adam’s Falconry Service, for about seven years. The business works with Orange County, various cities, homeowner’s associations and hotels to reduce the number of nuisance birds — pigeons, seagulls, crows — in areas where they congregate, like landfills, beaches and agricultural areas.
Chavez and his falconers use hawks and falcons for the job. Though these predator birds naturally eat smaller birds, Chavez and his team make sure there is no bloodshed. The predators merely haze the birds until they decide not to return. There are about 30 abatement birds in Chavez’s company. Chavez trains the birds in the initial stages.
Other than the landfill, Chavez didn’t want to divulge specific locations where his falconers are assigned, but he did say they work in San Juan Capistrano, Newport Beach, Irvine, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Beach and Dana Point.David Feliciano, a falconer with Adam’s Falconry Services, spends about six to 10 hours a day at the San Juan Capistrano landfill, depending on the season.
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