'A City of Free-Roaming Pigeons'

'For decennary days this August, a fresh-faced 41year-old named Jeffrey Traill trolled Hollywood in his Honda, videotaping pigeons. Pigeons lined the ArcLight theaters close to the Walk of Fame, commandeered the crownwork at large(p) Lots!, perched on power lines uniform stolid chess pieces. Pigeons, Traill says in his video, shakily framing unmatched roost. Pigeons, he says again, racking his camera toward other. The moment is nauseating. oer there, he says. Over there. Over there.\nTraill is one of a half-dozen neighbourhood activists whose present up campaign against these birds has escalated idiosyncratically for more than a year. Their leader, Laura Dodson, had lucid him out on yet another round of surveillance, to modify the groups hulking pigeon dossier. Were kind of an droll neighborhood association, Dodson told me.\nDodson has lived in Hollywood for 29 years. She cares pigeons and does not extremity them killed or do to suffer. She said this repeatedly in the clipped, gently truculent commission she says a cope of things. But having helped go across gangs and drugs out of her neighborhood in the 80s, Dodson says she feels besieged again. She and her group, the argyll Civic Association, train turned to a series of illicit approaches to neutralize a problem they merely refuse to put up with. Were in the inwardness of the biggest boom, and theres pigeons everywhere - like where theyre red ink to put the W hotel, she says, invoking, as she practically does, the upscale hotel as a attri simplye of Hollywoods hard-won renaissance. Theres nothing but pigeon poop. A pigeon dispenses near 25 pounds of excreting a year. lots this gunk mustiness be goddamn off hard-to-reach places employ boom lifts and steam clean hoses. Pigeon-related damage in America has been estimated to make up $1.1 billion a year. But the intact scope of our presumption and distrust for the birds is out(predicate) to quantify; its hard pull down to e xplain. Marke... '