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Hawaii Residents Sick of Early Crowing and Aggressive Pecking Could Be Allowed to Kill Wild Chickens

Hawaii Residents Sick of Early Crowing and Aggressive Pecking Could Be Allowed to Kill Wild Chickens

HONOLULU (AP) — The crowing starts well before the sun rises over Mason Aiona’s home in Hawaii. But the 3 a.m. rooster alarm isn’t what bothers the retiree the most. It’s spending most of the day shooing away wild chickens that dig holes in his yard, listening to constant squawking and feather-flapping, and scolding people who feed the feral birds at a park steps from his house. “It’s a big problem,” he said of the roosters, hens and chicks waddling around on the narrow road between his Honolulu house and the city park. “And they’re multiplying.” Communities across the state have been dealing with pervasive fowl for years. Honolulu has spent thousands of dollars trapping them, to little avail. Now state lawmakers are considering possible solutions — including measures that would let residents kill feral chickens, deem them a “controllable pest” on public land in Honolulu, and fine people for feeding them or releasing them in parks. But one person’s nuisance is another’s cultural symbol, a dynamic that has also played out in Miami and …