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My guess is the 63 dead birds found in downtown Austin today–shutting down business for hours and getting top billing on CNN for fears of  what? terrorism?–were poisoned by some office worker or building manager fed up with the flocks of grackles that have taken over down there. Loud, dirty, etc. Here in the People’s Republic, resolving things like that requires many public meetings, protest demos, law suits, etc. So–my guess–someone took the quickie way out and laid out some posion pellets on the window ledges and succeeded in killing a bunch of pigeons and sparrows as well as their grackle target. Whatever, the local daily is on the case.