Honolulu — The crowing begins effectively earlier than the solar rises over Mason Aiona’s dwelling in Hawaii.
However the 3 a.m. rooster alarm is not what bothers the retiree probably the most. It is spending a lot of the day shooing away wild chickens that dig holes in his yard, listening to fixed squawking and feather-flapping, and scolding individuals who feed the feral birds at a park steps from his home.
“It is a huge downside,” he mentioned of the roosters, hens and chicks waddling round on the slim highway between his Honolulu home and town park. “And so they’re multiplying.”
Communities throughout the state have been coping with pervasive fowl for years. Honolulu has spent hundreds of {dollars} trapping them, to little avail. Now state lawmakers are contemplating attainable options — together with measures that may let residents kill feral chickens, deem them a “controllable pest” on public land in Honolulu, and effective individuals for feeding them or releasing them in parks.
Jennifer Sinco Kelleher/AP
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