Inside Germany’s Giant, Hungry, Flightless-Bird Problem

[barbos]

In the nearby International district pieion shit is all over the place. In sme places yiu have towade theough pigeins on the ground.

Canadian Geese foul lakes with poop causing swimming bans.. Golf curses and lawns as well. They learned the area has a lot of open grass spaces during migraion.

And then the starlings. Huge flocks.

Starlings are a major pest in agriculture, requiring many areas to be netted to save fruit. In urban settings, the birds roost at night in flocks of thousands, returning to the same location again and again. Their droppings create a health and aesthetic problem.Sep 12, 2016

I recently saw a news where scientists managed to grow plants without light at 18x efficiency of natural way.
So the pest problem is about to be solved. Crops will be grown on factories in sterile environment. No more agriculture.

 

[lostone]

Are Rheas good to eat? Rhea in a curry sauce has a nice ring to it.

Taste and texture similar to a lean steak

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

German rheas, Australian camels, North American mustangs, Colombian hippos...

In the U.S. we have a feral pig problem. Hybrid descendents of Russian boars imported by sportsmen for hunting in the early 1800's. Germany also has a raccoon problem because Hermann Goering released raccoons at his hunting lodge outside Berlin just before WW2.

 

[TomC]

I recently saw a news where scientists managed to grow plants without light at 18x efficiency of natural way.

Doubtless the source of power was Putin's righteousness!
Just ask his pet pope Kirill.

Tom

 

[Elixir]

I recently saw a news where scientists managed to grow plants without light at 18x efficiency of natural way.

Doubtless the source of power was Putin's righteousness!
Just ask his pet pope Kirill.

Tom

Not yet, but it will be.
“Crops will be grown on factories in sterile environment“ so that if you’re mean to Putler, he can easily bomb your food supply without wasting as much money as it cost to shut down Ukraine.
That’s the source of power.

 

[bilby]

I am not sure that building 300,000 square miles of new factory space would be a good thing, even if doing so allowed us to eliminate arable farming.

 

[ramoss]

Rabbits were decimated by Calicivirus. Hardly see any these days.

Where I live, I see very very many.

 

[DBT]

Rabbits were decimated by Calicivirus. Hardly see any these days.

Where I live, I see very very many.

They must be coming back in certain areas. Evolution at work.

 

[ramoss]

Rabbits were decimated by Calicivirus. Hardly see any these days.

Where I live, I see very very many.

They must be coming back in certain areas. Evolution at work.

I looked it up. So far, there have only been just a couple of cases in the state I am in, and those were in domestic rabbits, so it has yet to spread to the wild population. I am sure sooner or later it will hit hard.. but , right now, they have yet to be exposed.

 

[bilby]

Rabbits were decimated by Calicivirus. Hardly see any these days.

Where I live, I see very very many.

They must be coming back in certain areas. Evolution at work.

I looked it up. So far, there have only been just a couple of cases in the state I am in, and those were in domestic rabbits, so it has yet to spread to the wild population. I am sure sooner or later it will hit hard.. but , right now, they have yet to be exposed.

It was deliberately introduced to them here, as a pest control method. As was myxomatosis previously - which they also evolved immunity to.

 

[DBT]

Rabbits were decimated by Calicivirus. Hardly see any these days.

Where I live, I see very very many.

They must be coming back in certain areas. Evolution at work.

I looked it up. So far, there have only been just a couple of cases in the state I am in, and those were in domestic rabbits, so it has yet to spread to the wild population. I am sure sooner or later it will hit hard.. but , right now, they have yet to be exposed.

I just noticed, we are in different countries.

 

[Potoooooooo]

Greater Rheas in Germany would seem to be a real boon for Germans if they are tasty and not a protected species in Germany. My dad always managed to bag a wild turkey for our thanksgiving and our Christmas tables.

I wonder if German wolves ever hunt them?

Apparently South American wolves do