Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticePigeons could soon be fed contraceptives in Norwich Market after mounting concerns around the size of the flocks. Norwich City Council is reportedly considering the measure as traders and shoppers had called the pigeons a nuisance and a health risk. The City of Brussels cut its pigeon population by 66 per cent berween 2019 and 2023. Meanwhile, a two-year trial in Malta using contraceptive-laced feed cut the feral pigeon population by around 30 per cent, according to a recent pest control report.