In an attempt to curb the effects of the large flock sizes of pigeons, now identified as "rats with wings," New York City Councilman Simcha Felder announced Monday that a proposal will be submitted calling for a $1000 fine to anyone who is caught feeding the birds.

Councilman Felder explained that the proposal was created upon the facts that pigeon droppings contained particular chemicals, specifically ammonia and uric acids, which can corrode city infrastructures, and rust steel structures. The report added extra weight to this statement by furthering that a single pigeon produces an average of 25 pounds of excrement per year.

Felder expressed frustration over the free reign of the birds on the city, without the appropriate amount of control being executed.

"If people like pigeons, take them into their homes, feed pigeons in your house and let them crap all over the place in your living rooms," he said, as quoted by the Associated Press.

The report, a copy of which was provided by the New York Times, identified human feeding as "the single greatest support to urban pigeon populations," and added that "as long as there exists a consistent access to plentiful sources of food, predominantly the refuse of human beings, the pigeon population will flourish."

The pigeon population has become a frustrating issue for city officials, and various measures have been taken to reduce their population in the city.

Some other proposed methods of doing so are deterrence by means of hawks and falcons; pigeon birth control; exclusion and habitat modification which is meant to deny the birds access to possible habitat areas; and dovecoting, which involves replacing pigeon eggs with dummies, hence fooling the pigeons into thinking that they have reproduced, dropping the rate of reproduction.