New York Council Member Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat proposed a $1,000 fine for feeding pigeons on Monday.

He stressed the idea that pigeons produce an average of 25 pounds of dropping each year and the amount of ammonia and uric acids from it can lead to the corrosion of the infrastructure, he said in a report, which contains solutions to the pigeon’s problems.

“We have pigeons doing whatever they do all over the city without anyone trying to stop it. If people like pigeons, take them into their homes, feed pigeons in your house and let them crap all over the place in your living rooms," he said in a statement outside City Hall, the Associated Press reports.

Felder also referred to the ways other cities, confronting with the same problem, have improved since they took measures against pigeons in his report.

In London, Mayor Ken Livingston approved a fine for people feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square and brought in hawks to scare away pigeons that remained.

In Venice, the authorities are trying to stop the sale of bird seed in St. Mark’s Square and prevent pigeons from chipping away at marble statues and buildings. The problem there is that the licensed bird feed sellers do not want to leave the square and the animal rights activists have expressed real concern for the birds.

In Los Angeles, the authorities proposed to introduce a pigeon contraceptive called OvoControl P to stop the increase of pigeon population.

Another sustainer of Felder’s cause is Mayor Michael Bloomberg who said that he is open to the idea of curbing pigeons’ food supply.

"We do have a lot of pigeons and they do tend to foul a lot of our areas, and people would be better off not feeding the pigeons. Those that are here will find food and they just won’t grow at such a rapid rate and we'd all probably be better off," he said at another news conference on Monday.

Felder also stressed the idea that pigeons’ droppings are correlated with several human diseases although the cases “are rare and the threat is often exaggerated,” as written in a report released by his office. The city Health Department does not consider the pigeons a threatening danger for the New Yorkers.

New York is not at its first try to control pigeons’ invasion. In 2003, a hawk was brought to scare pigeons in Bryant Park, one of the Manhattan’s Parks but the authorities dropped the program a few months later after the hawk attacked a Chihuahua.