{"id":596719,"date":"2025-11-27T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:49:11","slug":"hawk-introduced-to-norwich-market-to-help-clear-pigeons-and-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596719\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawk introduced to Norwich Market to help clear pigeons and gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hugo Malik, who runs Churros for the People, has been on the market for eight years and said pigeons and gulls have been a &#8220;great problem&#8221; over time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;They are a really bold strain of pigeon. They start walking into the stalls, they get under people&#8217;s feet and it is something continually raised with the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Deterring the birds] would make a massive difference to the ambience of the market&#8230; there are environmental issues around so many pigeons roosting and being around food prep areas.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harper said the authority had previously trialled other options to deter pigeons, but  part of the problem was people feed them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do also have an issue with people feeding the pigeons. We have been working hard to try to discourage people from doing that and pointing out the problems with feeding the birds in a place that does serve food,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Malik, who runs Churros for the People, has been on the market for eight years and said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-596719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115620568349475298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}