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Thousands of pigeons have been culled at railway locations, with pest control experts and campaigners offering different views on the approach.

Rail operators say deterrents are used first and culling is only considered when other options fail.
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00:00I love pigeons. I'm just a big animal lover in general, though.
00:03I think that I hate people who will just, like, you know, scare the birds or, like, let their dogs
00:10chase them and things like that.
00:11I think that that's cruel. Because at the end of the day, they're just animals.
00:16Flying rats. Flying rats without a shadow of a doubt.
00:20Yeah. They're horrible. Not very nice. No.
00:24Who everywhere?
00:25Just, like, shoo them away. They've got, like, you know...
00:29They're not going to take offence if you just go, shoo, and wave them off.
00:33They're what they are, aren't they, really, at the end of the day?
00:35If people are going to feed them, they're going to come, aren't they?
00:39It's nature, isn't it?
00:40Honestly, I think it's probably better that people do come out and feed them.
00:44Because, you know, for one thing, like, I know a load of old people love to come out and feed
00:47the pigeons.
00:48For two, it means that they're not rooting through, like, all the bins everywhere.
00:53I mean, I wouldn't go as far as to hurt a pigeon or an animal.
00:59It's an innocent animal. If it's bothering you, it doesn't know that.
01:03Like, I'm scared of spiders, but they don't know that.
01:06Don't feed them. You're just causing trouble for everybody else.
01:09That's right. Yeah.
01:10They're minucius.
01:10They invade all nice spaces. Look over there. There's loads of bird poo all over there.
01:14Yeah.
01:15Bird pigeons.
01:16Yeah.
01:16No.
01:17No.
01:17You can't eat in front of them either, can you?
01:19I don't see any harm in feeding them, to be quite honest. It's funny because in this place, there's, like,
01:24that's the pigeon corner and that's, like, less pigeon corner usually.
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