Houston Chronicle by Emily Foxhall and Rebecca Hennes Nov. 15, 2019
PEARLAND — Ericka Pulido Lemuz slowed her GMC truck while rushing her daughter to school Tuesday and gasped. She had seen what she thought were two ducks crossing West Oaks Circle East — a common occurrence in this neighborhood. Nearing the animals, the 38-year-old realized they were dead.
Again? she thought. Her 8-year-old daughter, Emma, started to cry.
In pockets of Pearland, a long-simmering war has built over the white and dark-emerald Muscovy ducks that make homes in residents’ flower beds. They poop on porches. They litter feathers on mowed lawns. They tear open trash bags left curbside for pickup. One nested this week in a potted plant at Iguanas Ranas Cantina.
Enough people threatened to take matters into their own hands that the city of Pearland on Nov. 1 issued a news release telling residents how lawfully to get rid of the poultry plaguing them. The messaging spun so out of control that some thought, wrongly, that residents could gun ducks down in neighborhoods.
More:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Pearland-quackmire-leaves-ducks-dead-and-14837570.phpNot too far from me is a street corner that is overrun with peacocks. I don't know which is worse.
