What do you think about the title of our blog? Oh, you think that my spelling is gone wrong! No way! No, I did not want to write 'aviation'. True, post the Ahmedabad tragedy in June, such 'flying' menace seems so dangerous that even the "flying discs" of the supposed aliens, too, appear less fearsome.
No, I am not referring to aviation. Yes, the theme today is related to wings and flying. These are of the non-artificial variety though, unlike the wings of aeroplanes or of "flying discs".
Yes, you have guessed it right. I am referring to the bird menace, a much debated topic currently. Birds are currently making people more furious than the "angry birds''! Yes, let us talk about the seed-, eh, feeding of pigeons publically.
As it is, the cityscape growing taller by the day has expelled the sparrows long time back. Now the only birds roaming the city/metro skies seem to be crows and pigeons. Of the two, crows could at least be supposed to be cleaning the garbage heaps, typical of the cityscapes, in their own winged (who said ' wicked'? True in a way because they do dirty the garbage area still more!) way.
Pigeons, however, are no help in any way, but are sheer menace. Used as they are to bulk feeding twice daily, they choose balconies and all such human households to shit. That refuse is positively dangerous as it carries particles affecting the human pulmonary organs, threatened hugely by pollution anyways.
Unfortunately, religious sensitivities have got intertwined in the whole issue as those feeding the pigeons in a huge and regular way argue that it is a caring and religious practice. They seem to overlook the fact that this comparatively recent custom is literally killing human beings. The complex effect the bird droppings have on human beings seem to be multi-drug resistant, and appear to be leading to a very painful death
Hence the need to control the avian danger. The Covid, which, too, is supposed to be avian in origin, should have taught us the lesson that nature should not be tampered with. Nature does have its own way of species control and balanced relationship between species. When human beings cross those limits for fancy food or for feeding the birds due to a much misplaced pity, dangerous are the final outcomes. Time human beings realise the avian danger!
Pratima@ "Nothing in the world," argued Martin Luther King, "is more dangerous than sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity."
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