New York Times: Chickens ‘Gone Wild’ on Kauai
The feral birds are everywhere, eating garbage and cat food and being fed by tourists.
It seems there is a big feral chicken problem on the Garden Island.
The New York Times says that the birds are crowing in parking lots, eating garbage and cat food and being fed at the beach.
Biologists say the genetic history of the feral chickens is also “a window into how humans domesticated wild animals.”
Talk has it that many of the Kauai chickens are descendants of birds that escaped when Hurricane Iwa hit in 1982 and Hurricane Iniki hit a decade later, blowing open chicken coops.
The Times provides a little audio of the fowl, too.
Recommended read.
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