SF News Glen Park Rat Infestations Being Pinned on ‘Birdseed Lady’ Dropping Huge Piles of the Stuff On Sidewalks One woman allegedly dropping “15-30 pounds” of birdseed at a time has been at it for years, according to Glen Park neighbors and businesses, who say she’s single-handedly causing a rat infestation that’s roiling the neighborhood.
SF News BART Has Hired a Hawk to Manage the Pigeon Population In El Cerrito A hawk who has been given the name Pac-Man is patrolling the area around the El Cerrito del Norte Station, thanks to a contract with a falconer in what's sort of a last-ditch effort — after many failed attempts — to control the pigeon population there.
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist/Prankster Puts Tiny Saxophones On the Ground for Pigeons to 'Play' The local artist and graphic designer responsible for those realistic-looking AirPod stickers that showed up on the ground around SF last fall has a new bit of tomfoolery to distract us from our pandemic/wildfire misery.
SF News Pigeon Found Wearing Tiny Sombrero In Reno Prompts Calls of Animal Abuse An amusing internet meme in December featuring pigeons wearing cowboy hats in Las Vegas has ended in death for one of those birds, and there's a copycat in Reno who has apparently glued a sombrero to a pigeon there.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Pigeon Lover's Dream Come True A bicyclist and pigeons on Chula Lane come together in peanut butter-and-chocolate-like harmony in this photo shot by Gerard Livernois. Huzzah, pigeons! (Our apologies to those of you who, inexplicably, loathe the winged
SF News BART Agents Fighting Losing War On Rats While we always felt that the Bay Area's subterranean public transit systems were never as overrun with rodents as say the New York City subway, it turns out the folks who are down
misc This Day in Pigeon History In our capacity as head of an agency that delivers pertinent pigeon dispatches, allow us to remind you that on this day in 1914, the last known passenger pigeon--named Martha, after George Washington’
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 30: Of Pigeons & Politics This week, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society invite you to join them as they take a journey through the magical world of books. Specifically, books written for children on the subject
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 18: Don't Feed the Pigeons In today's history lesson, a sequel of sorts to last week's Pigeon of the Month episode, our friends from the Tenderloin Geographic Society dive in to the archives to find a classic, yet
misc Pigeon Takeover at Sixteenth Street BART Station? Yesterday we encountered a ridiculous amount of pigeon poo covering the floor of the 16th Street BART Station. That can't be healthy. What gives, BART?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink "Please Don't <s>Eat</s> Feed the Pigeons" Found at Geary and Fillmore, Greg Dewar of N Judah Chronicles came across this bilingual, demanding sign that asks you to not cook and eat San Francisco's pigeons. Always a good reminder, we
misc Film du Jour: Pigeons We love 'em. Some of you hate 'em. Some of you like the taste of 'em. With that in mind, please enjoy Mission and Highland's awesome tribute to flying kittens / rats with wings.
misc Scene from a Bird Flight Really, how can you hate them after seeing this? They're gorgeous in "Pigeons on a Mission," above, shot by Flickr photog captin_nod. As always, SFist, for some strange reason, loves pigeon shots.
SF News Wimbledon Under Fire for Pigeon Murder Wimbledon, that top-drawer tennis championship played on grass way over on the other side of the pond, is currently underway. What's more, it's coming under fire for "using marksmen to shoot down dive-bombing
SF News Happy National Pigeon Day! Today, June, Friday the 13, is National Pigeon Day. Yay! While some of you detest one of "nature's most successful creatures," today we stand up for the adorable little winged creatures. After all,
misc Pigeons: Y/N? Adorable winged plebians saddled with an unfair reputation, or scourge of the city in need of immediate cleansing? Discuss.
