Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins

The birds also won the war on sparrows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign

Two nations fought wars on birds and lost. That should be a lesson.

Sadly, humans won a pyric victory hunting tens of billions of passenger pigeons to extinction. It's a good thing emus are hardier than dodos.

Some gems from the wiki:

“By the fourth day of the campaign, army observers noted that "each pack seems to have its own leader now—a big black-plumed bird which stands fully six feet high and keeps watch while his mates carry out their work of destruction [of the fields] and warns them of our approach".

“By 8 November, six days after the first engagement, 2,500 rounds of ammunition had been fired.The number of birds killed is uncertain: one account estimates that it was 50 birds, but other accounts range from 200 to 500, the latter figure being provided by the settlers. Meredith's official report noted that his men had suffered no casualties.”

After the withdrawal, Major Meredith had said:

“If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world ... They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks.“

And Ornithologist Dominic Serventy had commented that:

“The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.”

TLDR;

Emus are badass warriors

Corvids are sneaky, crafty, brave fuckers. They are willing and able to stealthily invade human-occupied spaces.

That actually happened with us. Usually there's a gap at the side or corner where the birds can squeeze through. We just called the company back to get the birds out of there (we have zipper openings to change lights so the birds were lured out from those) and then tighten up the sides and corners. It solved the problem.

We stage pallets of product under the awning for shipping purposes. Our product is food packaging and bird poop on product (even packaged and wrapped) is a big no no.

Nothing can stop The Caws of Art.

Hah, speaking of budgies, I failed to latch the door on my budgie's cage one day and the cheeky little fella figured out he could push it open to escape. We originally found him at a bird feeder outside, so I should have known he was clever enough to escape if he wants.

It's easy to underestimate them with how silly they act, but never again. He gives me green cheek conure a run for his money on intellect.

Pigeons do not have a good rep: https://www.audubon.org/news/the-origins-our-misguided-hatre...

In dense urban environments, masses of corrosive pigeon shit everywhere, with feathers sticking to it. Unsanitary.

In my French Parisian city of Courbevoie, pigeon houses where eggs are shaken to sterilize them, and re-introducing magpies solved the problem - the now sparser population is fine. Magpies and crows devastate pigeon nests.

Also, the expansion of greenery led to shifting the pigeon population from mostly columba livia, which nests on rocks (and therefore on buildings) to mostly columba palumbus - which nests in vegetation and thus doesn't make a habit of shitting on buildings.

WOOHOOOO WOOOHOOO WOOOHHHOOO at 4am for 4 months every day

My household had to change our sleeping schedule because of these stupid rats. In Europe they are both protected and invasive at the same time.

And my magpies attack the finches. They've killed 3 finches so far. I've given the finches a place to escape where the magpies can't fit but most of them haven't figured it out.

The magpies also try to attack my Uinta Chipmunks but they are too fast for the magpies. I put the food between my firewood logs where the chipmunks can fit and the magpies can not. Funny thing is the magpies can't stop talking so I know when they are up to no good.