Key points:The landscaping team is now employing birds of prey to control the rogue residentsResplendent in a red-and-black hood, her calm demeanour masks her explosive speed and power.
"We've got her up to around about 120, 150 kilometres per hour, which is not bad. Her mother we clocked at 257 kilometres per hour," Floyd's handler Graeme Coles offers.She is intimidating, even from a human perspective. So imagine what it must be like for smaller, slower birds who see her circling above them.
The falcon has been brought to Capital Hill for a reason — hired avian muscle to help the building's gardeners keep the well-curated grounds of the precinct as pristine as possible."They come into our lovely forecourt here, and they leave a lot of droppings that we're spending a lot of money cleaning up," Paul Janssen from the Department of Parliamentary Services landscaping team said.
So it's been trained to attack our parasites then.
But it's removing the wrong bunch of rogues ...