rooks are dislodged
The City of Luxembourg proceeds until Friday to crown cutting and removal of rook nests.
The rook, an omnivorous passerine that nests in colonies, is a protected species. But its presence is not desirable in certain places in the capital, because it raises a health risk, as explained by the City of Luxembourg in a press release published on Tuesday.
It’s in the framework of the application of a management plan for these corvids nesting on the territory of the capital that this work of cutting down the crowns and removing the nests has been carried out since Tuesday and until Friday January 27 to to differenotyou places, either duen their proximity to of the infrastructure sensitive (schoolsprivate gardensplay areas), that is due to the size of colonies and their potentialand growth.
Tuesday, the park Cessange was concerned. This Wednesday, the work will take place rue Christophe Plantin. Thursday, it will be the turn of the rue Giuseppe-Verdi (school nearby) to be concerned. The work tour will end at roundabout marcel boulevard Cahen/rue de Merl (nearby school).
L’management plan objective is to achieve ae long term management of this protected species in the territory of the capital everything avoiding a splitting and a diceplacement undesirable settlements worms a multitude of others sites with potential for conflict.
For this, additional analyzes in time and space will be carried out in order to identify alternative sites where the presence of crows in the urban environment can be tolerated.