I can hardly believe some of the posts on here....
Do we really have to wait for a few more crashes.. not "miraculously" without loss of life like this one, but wiping out 150-odd people (another 320 or 737) or more than 300 people (7*7, A330... ) and maybe another hundred or so on the ground, before anything is done?
Removing one of the "clear and present dangers" in the form of bird "sanctuaries" within a couple of miles of LGA is fairly straightforward. Moving LGA, JFK and Newark, plus the New York metropolis, is not.
The birds have plenty of other places to go. New York does not.
To "protect" a few thousands birds (those in the area) we now daily put how many people at risk?
CJ