Meudon calls on a falconer to scare away the unwanted green parakeets. The ring-necked parakeet invades the woods of Meudon by the thousands.
The birds are said to have arrived from India in the 1970s, in full swing of caged parakes. “We looked for a clean, humane way that has already proven itself,” says deputy mayor Patrick de la Marque. Raptors are increasingly used to fight against another scourge of cities, pigeons.