{
  "id": 11503016,
  "title": "Boston mass transit authorities flap around for solution to pigeon menace",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/boston-mass-transit-authorities-flap-around-for-solution-to-pigeon",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-02T18:12:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/boston-transit-pigeon-falcon"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority are now pondering on setting trained falcons on the urban birds The mass transit authorities in the greater Boston region are clawing around for ways to mitigate the excessive local pigeon population – or more graphically, pigeon poo all over stations – and have swooped on the possibility of setting trained falcons on them. The Massachusetts Bay…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}