阿根廷小镇鹦鹉泛滥 镇上居民不堪其扰
Every year, Hilario Ascasubi, a town in the south of Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, is invaded by tens of thousands of noisy cliff parrots that cause millions of dollars in damage.
The people of Hilario Ascasubi have been disturbed by a giant colony of parrots for several years now, but many are complaining that things are getting worse every year. The parrot population is growing, and so is the level of property damage they cause. The green-feathered birds love nothing more than biting on electrical and internet wires, driving providers crazy in a never-ending race to keep networks in working order. Bird droppings on sidewalks and streets are also a big problem, as is the constant noise the birds make night and day. Many of the 5,000 inhabitants of Hilario Ascasubi are at their wits’ end, claiming that they can’t go on living alongside the birds.
The town’s parrot problem is nothing new, and officials have been trying to deal with it, but nothing has worked. Noise bombs and laser (激光) lights have been used to drive the birds away, but they got used to them after a while and now they do not affect them. Because cliff parrots are a protected species in Argentina, harsher measures of dealing with them are strictly forbidden, so locals have no choice but to put up with their feathered neighbors.
Although listening to the people of Hilario Ascasubi, you would think that the cliff parrots are the invaders, experts claim that the birds are actually refugees driven out of their natural habitat by human greed. “There was a displacement, cities began to grow, they started with agriculture, with wheat and with livestock,” Paolo Sánchez Angonova, an agricultural engineer who has been studying parrot overpopulation since 2013, said. “Then, from the south of the province of Buenos Aires, deforestation (滥伐森林) occurred, which caused the parrot to lose its habitat.” As a result, the parrots looked for other places to settle and found that towns like Hilario Ascasubi were ideal.
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