WILD BIRDS ADDED TO CITY’S NO-FEEDING LIST

By Wendy Reuer / West Fargo Pioneer

WEST FARGO — After residents complained about the high amount of Canada geese gathering in their neighborhoods this summer, the West Fargo City Commission took action to add feeding wild birds to an already long list of animals listed in the city ordinance as off-limits to feed. Such animals include many of what one may expect such as deer, moose, or coyotes but the city law for some reason, includes animals not particularly native to the city such as alligators, crocodiles, lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats, leopards, jaguars, jackals and even dingos.

Dingos are a member of the wild dog family, notably indigenous to Australia.

The ordinance now also includes “species or breed of turkey, geese, ducks, pheasants, wood ducks, owls, eagles, and any other type of fowl not being kept for agricultural purposes,” after the West Fargo City Commission passed the ordinance second reading at its Monday, Dec. 5 meeting.