A Bright Idea
The latest spectacle at the Arts Centre isn’t in the Playhouse or the State Theatre; it's an attempt to stop a gang of sulphur-crested cockatoos from vandalising the 30,000 tiny lights of the centre's iconic spire. The cheeky delinquents of the bird world have taken a shine to the lights, pecking and dislodging the globes and fittings, and already running up a bill of some $70,000. In the latest skirmish of the ongoing saga, man versus nature, the Arts Centre has hired falcons and eagles to perch on the roof and stare the pesky parrots down. And if they still fancy their chances, there's a recorded soundtrack of distressed cockies to make them think again.
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Apparently cockies need to keep pecking at things to wear-down their beaks - which'll otherwise keep growing. Oh, and 85% of parrots are left-handed...er...clawed.
Another example of nature taking over the built environment. Last year it was pigeons: Melbourne City Council paid $60,000 for a pigeon coop in Batman Park to deter the city's burgeoning pigeon population from loitering around the city. It could have brought in some specially trained cats for half that.
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