A coastal town invaded by scary black birds that attack its people and it seems that there is no escape from these black birds , this is no a scene from Hitchcock's masterpiece “The Birds” but a daily scene from Suez governorate.
For several weeks now Suez has been suffering from a huge attack of crows. Crows by large numbers have invaded the city and its skies attacking the people and making their lives hell. People know fear to go to gardens for fear they would be attacked by these crows.
The governor could not find any solution to get rid from these crews except when the Egyptian national shooting team suggested to shot down these birds every weekend and of course the team is having a golden time to train and enjoy itself in the coastal city with free ammunition. Of course animal rights organizations will not like these scenes.
Some people believe that the crows problem is an old one, they came when the city was abandoned right after the six days war but people returned back to the city from more than 30 years now. Also the problem is reaching to neighbor governorates , as people in Ismailia and Red sea governorate noticed an increasing number of crows in certain areas
I did a little search and I found that strangely several cities in the region have complained from similar attacks like Akkaba in Jordan and Aden in Yemen.
Here are crows in Akkaba
Here are crows in Aden from Al Jazeera report.
But for sure every city has its reasons to be attacked by crows.
In Suez according to people crows have increased due to the accumulated garbage thanks to the governorate policies !! Some people also blame the governorate for using crows to get rid from a mice problem the governorate was suffering from !! Well garbage brings mice too so Whether it is the garbage or mice I think the governorate has to be blamed for standing still waiting for the shooting team to come and save the day !!
In respectable societies the governorate will work hard to keep the cities clean and will find an ecological ways to get rid from the garbage. In respectable societies the governorate will ask the help of zoologists and scientists to understand how to combat these crows in an ecological way.
In respectable societies the governor should not wait the government back in Cairo to give him orders on what to do but of course in respectable societies the governor is elected not appointed.