It’s back to the drawing board for the city of Sunnyvale as city officials continue to grapple with its crow problem.
It’s crows 1, Sunnyvale 0, after the city axed its green laser pilot program last month after the murder of cawing crows that’s plagued downtown residents in recent years caught on that the shiny, blinding light poses no real threat.
In recent years, the Golden Gate Audubon Society has been counting more crows as part of its annual Christmas Bird Count. In 2021, the group of bird lovers tallied 2,429 crows in Oakland as part of the count — 55% more than the average number of crows counted in the last decade and 25 times the average counted in the last 25 years of the 20th century.
At a priority-setting session last month, which helps guide the city in what projects to undertake in the upcoming year, the Sunnyvale City Council ranked researching possible mitigation measures for both crows and geese as one of its top priorities. The geese, which are known to be aggressive birds, tend to congregate around the community center.
Those complaints range from the crows covering the sidewalks and benches with bird droppings — which the city has deemed a health hazard — to awakening residents in the morning with their loud caws. Along with complaints from residents, Mayor Larry Klein — the self-proclaimed “mayor of crows” — has received emails from people all across the country looking to solve the city’s crow conundrum.
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