City Of Madison resumes goose management strategies
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Around this time each year, the Madison Parks Division contends with an overabundance of geese. Frequently, that happens in local parks, where birds can come into confrontation with humans and also leave behind bodily waste.
The Parks Division uses a variety of methods to control the population of Canada geese. Those methods include, among other things, leaving an unmowed buffer strip of vegetation between the park and waterfront, blocking the birds’ access to water.
The parks division also uses decoy predator dummies and rubs oil on geese eggs to keep them from hatching.