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BBC hawks ruffle corporation feathers

New Broadcasting House
Not pigeon street but the BBC's new Broadcasting House. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Feathers have been ruffled at the BBC after one of the harris hawks it hired to protect staff from pesky pigeons attacked one outside the corporation's new Broadcasting House in London. The Daily Telegraph reports that one of the three birds of prey "made a kill" on a pigeon late last year. The BBC keeps three harris hawks – named Scout, Travis and Rio – to enforce a "no-fly zone" around Broadcasting House and protect staff from nuisance birds. No word yet on whether the hawk will offer its resignation amid the latest BBC scandal.

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