Each pigeon costs the inhabitants of Venice 23 euros

The pigeons in San Marco Square in Venice cost each citizen 275 euros per year. The taxpayers have to pay just so much in order to clean the monuments, frescos and other places of interest. As the Italian Economic Association has calculated, it turns out that the inhabitants of Venice give about 23 euros for every pigeon that "resides" there. It is reported that the number of pigeons has increased by a quarter the recent year; this is due to the uncommonly warm winter. The Mayor of Venice thinks that it will be enough to remove the tourists' favourite attraction - the tents where corn for birds is sold - from the square for the reduction of the expenses on birds. Each sale outlet of this kind sells several quintals of corn per day.