Angry birds: Canadians vs. Canada Geese

In today’s Big Story podcast, they are majestic flying in a “V” overhead. A symbol of fall and spring. A true National treasure. They also flock to cities and universities to nest and then aggressively defend those nests, they leave metric tons of goose poop just about everywhere, and you don’t want to get on their bad side.

Tom Jokinen wrote about the ill-fated efforts to contain and control the beloved creatures in The Walrus. He joins us to discuss the paradox that is the Canada goose.

“The thing with geese is, it’s not that they are encroaching on our territory. They’re exploiting it. They’re using it. They want what we’ve built for them,” he said.

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