Market Stats The City and County of Honolulu has awarded a contract for its Integrated Feral Chicken Management Program on city properties to Sandwich Isle Pest Solutions. Using a proactive and systematic approach, traps will be set in city facilities such as parks, golf courses, corporation yards and other areas where the presence of feral chickens have been verified by department personnel.
The contactor will use “smart traps” with wireless cameras and automatic notification of trapping, wildlife cameras to scout and assess sites, GPS to track technician locations and barcode scanning to log completed assignments. The city will be provided with access to the contractor’s logging system to review the service records posted for each location.
The trapping will be conducted Monday through Friday, with the traps collected at the end of the work week. Other trapping methods, such as cage traps and netting, may also be used during the four-month demonstration project. The $80,000 contract is being funding by a city council appropriation in the Fiscal Year 2015 operating budget.
Captured chickens will be humanely euthanized with a CO2 immersion system that conforms to American Veterinary Medical Association guidelines. Trapping began in August. Among the 70 city facilities identified for trapping are the Board of Water Supply Yard on Diamond Head Road, the Waikīkī Shell, Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve, Kaiaka Bay Beach Park in Hale‘iwa, Kualoa Regional Park, West Loch Golf Course and Pali Golf Course. More than 1,500 chickens were counted at city facilities in May this year.
