'Like a Stephen King movie': feral chickens return to plague New Zealand village

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'Like a Stephen King movie': feral chickens return to plague New Zealand village

Lockdown may have vanquished Covid-19, but it has enabled the birds to make an unwanted comebackTheir raucous clucking deprives residents of sleep. They leave the neighbourhood “wrecked”. And food left out for them attracts “rats the size of cats” to an otherwise peaceful, leafy suburb. New Zealand’s national lockdown to quell the spread of Covid-19 appears to have vanquished the virus, but it has had one unintended consequence: the re-emergence…