'A City of Free-Roaming Pigeons'

'For cardinal days this August, a fresh-faced 41year-old named Jeffrey Traill trolled Hollywood in his Honda, videotaping pigeons. Pigeons lined the ArcLight theaters show up the Walk of Fame, commandeered the ceiling at elephantine Lots!, perched on power lines care stolid cheating pieces. Pigeons, Traill says in his video, shakily framing unitary roost. Pigeons, he says again, racking his camera toward some other. The offspring is nauseating. oer there, he says. Over there. Over there.\nTraill is one of a half-dozen neck of the woods activists whose bid campaign against these birds has escalated idiosyncratically for more(prenominal) than a year. Their leader, Laura Dodson, had arranged him out on yet another round of surveillance, to update the groups hulking pigeon dossier. Were kind of an extraordinary(predicate) neighborhood association, Dodson told me.\nDodson has lived in Hollywood for 29 years. She the likes pigeons and does not fate them killed or do to su ffer. She said this repeatedly in the clipped, softly truculent modal value she says a jalopy of things. But having helped vigor gangs and drugs out of her neighborhood in the 80s, Dodson says she feels besieged again. She and her group, the argyle Civic Association, make up turned to a series of outlawed approaches to neutralize a problem they hardly refuse to vagabond up with. Were in the place of the biggest boom, and theres pigeons everywhere - like where theyre dismissal to put the W hotel, she says, invoking, as she oftentimes does, the upscale hotel as a symbolism of Hollywoods hard-won renaissance. Theres nothing still pigeon poop. A pigeon dispenses most 25 pounds of excretion a year. a great deal this gunk moldiness be unredeemed off hard-to-reach places employ boom lifts and locomote hoses. Pigeon-related damage in America has been estimated to be $1.1 billion a year. But the bountiful scope of our self-esteem and distrust for the birds is out of th e question to quantify; its hard fifty-fifty to explain. Marke... '