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In the warmer months, hundreds of geese and their droppings are scattered across the greenspace, and residents say they are unable to use the park.

The bird population in the United States and Canada was probably around 10.1 billion nearly half a century ago and has fallen 29 per cent to about 7.2 billion birds, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Science.