HOW DRU CATCH SEES IT

Six Thousand Reasons the Shooting Didn't Work

There is a very particular brand of civic self-assurance required to dispatch nearly six thousand birds across a calendar year, watch a fresh wave touch down on the same perches, and then table reproductive health services for wildlife as the logical next step. The Klang Royal City Council possesses that brand of self-assurance. It possesses it in remarkable quantities.

Councillor Chris Lee confirmed to The Star that culling amounts to a short-term fix, because incoming flocks are drawn by the same food sources the dead ones exploited. That is an accurate diagnosis. It is also a diagnosis that was available before a single licensed shooter arrived at Bandar Bukit Tinggi. Crow droppings corrode metalwork, carry potential fungal and bacterial hazards, and ruin the ambience of an open-air dinner - nobody is contesting any of that. What invites a question is why the council required roughly six thousand fatalities before formally arriving at it.

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The Pill Won't Clean the Drain

The proposed contraceptive feed - an oral compound that disrupts egg yolk membranes so embryos cannot develop - is a documented wildlife management instrument with genuine precedent. Credit is warranted: the approach is non-lethal, and Lee's core argument holds that it works on population trajectory rather than simply clearing the current occupants off a ledge for the next arrivals to claim.

The council's own evidence, however, names eateries discarding scraps into drains as the principal reason crows congregate in the first place. Oral contraceptives administered in feed do not unblock a drain or persuade a night-stall vendor to bag the waste before 2am. Every attractant the council identified stays fully operational while the Health Department sub-committee waits for its scheduled briefing with the Shah Alam distributor - still, per corporate communications director Norfiza Mahfiz, roughly a month out. The crows, who received no memo, are still showing up.

The Rebrand Arrives After 6,000 Kills

The genuine absurdity on display is not the contraceptive proposal taken in isolation - it is the framing applied to it. Lee characterised the shift as moving the council toward a more humane mode of population control. That framing treats the previous twelve months of licensed shooting as a kind of prologue, a preliminary warm-up phase before the council's humane instincts finally surfaced. Six thousand birds do not obviously constitute a warm-up.

A policy arriving after a four-figure cull and then presenting itself as a compassionate evolution is not a pivot. It is a rebrand with a pastel colour scheme. The crows already removed from the Bandar Bukit Tinggi headcount have no position on the council's newfound commitment to non-lethal solutions, but the ones currently forming an orderly queue at the night stalls - drawn by the same untreated food waste - seem entirely untroubled by the Phase Two announcement.