Laptop Battery Trained border collies and radio-controlled model speedboats are all methods that have been used with some success to control the Canada goose population in Union County parks. But now officials feel the time has come to attack the birds where they live.
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Thinkpad This week county park workers and representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services are searching out the nesting areas to destroy the eggs by coating them with oil to cut off oxygen to the embryo.
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Microsoft In addition, the county has also obtained a federal permit to euthanize up to 2,700 of the nonmigratory birds over the summer to control the goose population and eliminate what authorities said has become a serious health hazard throughout the park system.
Over the past 30 to 40 years, Canada geese have learned that food is so readily available in places like the Forsythe refuge that they don't move out during the winter months, Atzert said. called resident Canada geese make a steady diet of the refuge's lush, green grasses. But in the early part of the fall, when the muddy banks of the marsh should be overgrown with vegetation, the geese have already eaten away large patches of grass. Other birds, like migratory Canada geese, have little food to rebuild their fat stores, Atzert said.
Laptop Computers "The droppings and other damage caused by the nonmigratory geese was just getting worse and we had to do something so that residents would be able to enjoy the parks now that spring has arrived," said Parks and Recreation Director Charles Sigmund.
There has been a huge population boom of Canada geese in the last 10 years, according to Atzert. In 1990, there were 238, 13 states from Virginia to Maine. The most recent count puts the Canada goose population at more than one million. New Jersey has roughly 85, 000 resident Canada geese. half, Coppen said.
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Desktop Computer The 96,800 geese who live year- round in New Jersey have long worn out their welcome. Union County wildlife experts said an adult goose can defecate as much as 27 times day, producing a pound of waste per goose daily.
Notebooks The waste is often washed into nearby waterways and streams and pose a health risk for children and pets who play in the parks.
Lenovo In addition, the birds would often feed upon and decimate the grassy areas where they congregated.
Hard Drive The fight against geese has taken place all over the state.
Travelstar Staff at the County College of Morris used lawnmowers to harass the migratory waterfowl and "scare guns" were used at the Morris County Parks Commission's Flanders Valley Golf Course.
Gateway Hanover eventually resorted to euthanizing the geese by carbon dioxide when their bird infestation became unmanageable.
Laptop Parts The City of Linden last year hired a private vendor to help reduce the geese population that was soiling two of their popular municipal parks.
Software "We had a resident population of about 100 to 150 birds in Veterans Memorial Park and another 50 at Wilson Park," said Al MacDonald, the city's superintendent of public property.
Hard Drives He said Goose Control Technology of New Jersey Inc. in Metuchen charged the city to destroy the birds' eggs and to remove a number of adult geese for butchering, with their meat being donated to food kitchens.
Electronics The program was so successful in controlling the goose population and reducing droppings last year that the city is continuing the project this year
Canon Under a $20,000 contract approved earlier this month by the Union County Freeholders, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's wildlife services are working with county workers to find goose nests in seven county-owned parks.
Desktop Pc Sigmund said the problem of goose droppings "has been escalating" at Black Brook Park, Kenilworth, Echo Lake Park that straddles Mountainside and Westfield, Cedar Brook Park in Plainfield, Rahway River Park in Rahway, Nomahegan Park in Cranford, Kawameeh Park in Union Township and Warinanco Park in Roselle.
Desktop Computers "We still use the dog provided by the sheriff to harass the birds off our golf courses, but they can't be used in a larger park setting where there is vehicular traffic," he said.
Think Pad Sigmund said once the eggs are found they will be "coated with oil so the shell is not as porous and the embryo inside cannot receive oxygen and therefore will not develop."
Repair The search teams are also puncturing the eggs to prevent hatching.
Data Recovery Officials said the egg tampering methods for controlling goose populations are sanctioned by the United States Humane Society.
Cisco Sigmund said simply destroying the eggs only encourages the birds to lay more elsewhere and less hatching reduces the reasons for the adult birds to remain in the same area.
Keyboard Daniel Bernier, director of the Division of Park Planning and Maintenance, has said that "geese lay in the neighborhood of a dozen eggs a season, or one egg a day for two weeks."
Monitor The county said it selected which of its parks to include in the project based on the scope of the problem.
Desktop The county's Briant Park in Summit has had its share of problems with goose droppings, but is not on the list.
Infosys Mayor Walter Long is not upset.
Refurbished Laptops "I must say the county did an excellent job with its deer management program in the Watchung Reservation and while geese are a whole different problem, the fact that they are addressing the situation is good news and I hope it works," said the mayor.
Wipro By Robert E. Misseck
Star-Ledger - 3/28/2003
Topic: Birding
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