更新于：2026年2月19日 / 美国东部时间上午8:47 / 美联社
檀香山 — 太阳还未升起，梅森·艾奥纳（Mason Aiona）在夏威夷的家中就已被公鸡的啼叫吵醒。
但凌晨3点的公鸡闹钟并非最困扰这位退休老人的事。最让他烦恼的是，他一整天都要驱赶在院子里刨洞的野生鸡，还要忍受它们持续不断的聒噪和扑腾翅膀的声音，以及邻居在他家几步之遥的公园喂这些野禽的行为。
“这是个大问题，”他谈到在他家与城市公园之间狭窄道路上摇摇摆摆的公鸡、母鸡和小鸡时说，“而且它们的数量还在增加。”
全州的社区多年来一直受到泛滥的家禽困扰。檀香山花费数千美元捕捉它们，但收效甚微。如今，州议员们正在考虑可能的解决方案——包括允许居民捕杀野生鸡，将其认定为檀香山公共土地上的“可控害虫”，并对在公园喂食或放生这些鸡的人处以罚款。
野生鸡在2026年2月6日于檀香山市中心附近游荡。詹妮弗·辛科·凯莱赫/美联社
然而，一个人的困扰可能是另一个人的文化象征，这种情况在迈阿密和其他一些有野生鸡种群的城市也存在。
夏威夷文化从业者兼动物保护主义者基奥哈·皮肖塔（Kealoha Pisciotta）反对仅仅因为野生鸡造成困扰就将其捕杀。她表示，如今的一些鸡是早期波利尼西亚航海者带到岛上的鸡的后代。
“‘Moa’（夏威夷语中‘鸡’的意思）非常重要，”她说，“它们曾伴随我们的航海旅程，与我们一同来到这里。”
夏威夷动物保护协会反对将捕杀野生鸡作为“种群控制手段，除非所有其他策略都已用尽”。
代表檀香山郊区卡内奥赫的民主党议员斯科特·马塔约西（Scot Matayoshi）表示，他是在听到当地一位小学老师反映这些鸟骚扰学生后，开始起草控制鸡群的立法。
“孩子们害怕它们，而且它们会更具攻击性地为了食物追赶孩子，”马塔约西说。
议员杰克逊·赛亚马（Jackson Sayama）表示，他提出捕杀鸡的法案是因为目前消灭鸡群的方法有限。他称，居民可自行决定是否采用致命手段。
“如果你想采用‘老派’方式，直接拧断鸡的脖子，这完全可以，”代表檀香山部分地区的民主党议员说，“你有很多不同的方法可以做到。”
马塔约西称，多年来消灭鸡群的法案都未通过。他在社区委员会任职时曾讨论过鸡群生育控制的想法。
“我认为现在人们开始更认真地对待这个问题了，”他说。
74岁的艾奥纳在檀香山市中心附近的一个山谷里住了30多年，他的房子是妻子利奥娜（Leona）长大的地方。他们表示，大约十年前，野生鸡才开始出现在他们的社区，而在新冠疫情期间，这些鸟的数量激增。
他曾看到一个男人把一只鸡从车里拿出来，放在公园里然后开车离开，他说。
当鸡第一次出现在他家外面时，他赤手空拳抓住一只，把它放进塑料垃圾桶，然后开车送到机场附近的一个公园。“我打开盖子，把垃圾桶翻倒，鸡立刻跑了出来，”他说，“我说……‘别再回来了。’”
但他很快意识到，这种耗时的努力是徒劳的。
他个人并不想捕杀鸡，更希望有人能把它们捡起来送到农村农场。他说，城市的捕捉项目成本太高。
该市与一家害虫防治公司签约捕捉鸡。私人业主一周的服务费用为375美元，外加50美元的笼子租金和每只鸡10美元的处置费。
檀香山客户服务部发言人哈罗德·内德（Harold Nedd）表示，去年通过该项目捕获了1300多只鸡。他补充说，2025年关于野生鸡的投诉增加了51%。
野生鸡不太可能成为廉价的晚餐。它们的肉比养殖禽类更坚韧，而且这些野禽可能携带疾病。
艾奥纳的一位邻居用吹风机驱赶它们。“我也有一个吹风机，但我的是电动的，”艾奥纳说，“但它只能在电线范围内使用。”
艾奥纳已经厌倦了在退休后不断告诉公园游客不要喂鸡。虽然他不建议任何人吃它们，但他欢迎任何想要一只鸡的人来取走。
野生鸡在2023年4月19日于檀香山附近游荡。詹妮弗·辛科·凯莱赫/美联社
Hawaii residents may get OK to kill wild chickens
Updated on: February 19, 2026 / 8:47 AM EST / AP
Honolulu — The crowing starts well before the sun rises over Mason Aiona’s home in Hawaii.
But the 3 a.m. rooster alarm isn’t what bothers the retiree the most. It’s spending most of the day shooing away wild chickens that dig holes in his yard, listening to constant squawking and feather-flapping, and scolding people who feed the feral birds at a park steps from his house.
“It’s a big problem,” he said of the roosters, hens and chicks waddling around on the narrow road between his Honolulu house and the city park. “And they’re multiplying.”
Communities across the state have been dealing with pervasive fowl for years. Honolulu has spent thousands of dollars trapping them, to little avail. Now state lawmakers are considering possible solutions — including measures that would let residents kill feral chickens, deem them a “controllable pest” on public land in Honolulu, and fine people for feeding them or releasing them in parks.
Feral chickens wander around near downtown Honolulu on Feb. 6, 2026. Jennifer Sinco Kelleher/AP
But one person’s nuisance is another’s cultural symbol, a dynamic that has also played out in Miami and some other cities with populations of wild chickens.
Kealoha Pisciotta, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and animal advocate, disagrees with killing feral chickens simply because they’re a nuisance. Some chickens today descended from those brought to the islands by early Polynesian voyagers, she said.
“The moa is very significant,” she said, using the Hawaiian word for chicken. “They were on our voyaging, came with us.”
The Hawaiian Humane Society opposes letting residents kill the chickens “as a means of population control unless all other strategies have been exhausted.”
Rep. Scot Matayoshi, a Democrat representing the Honolulu suburb of Kaneohe, said he started crafting chicken control legislation after he heard from an elementary school teacher in his district that the birds were harassing the pupils.
Feral chickens wander around near downtown Honolulu on April 19, 2023. Jennifer Sinco Kelleher/AP
“The children were afraid of them, and they would kind of more aggressively go after the children for food,” Matayoshi said.
Rep. Jackson Sayama said he introduced the chicken-killing bill because there are currently limited ways to get rid of them. The lethal method would be at the resident’s discretion.
“If you want to go old-school, just break the chicken’s neck, that’s perfectly fine,” said the Democrat who represents part of Honolulu. “There’s many different ways you can do it.”
Chicken eradication bills have failed over the years, Matayoshi said. Chicken birth control was an idea discussed when he was on a neighborhood board.
“I think there are people who are taking it more seriously now,” he said.
For more than 30 years, Aiona, 74, has lived in a valley near downtown Honolulu in a house his wife Leona grew up in. Wild chickens didn’t show up in their neighborhood until about a decade ago, they said. The birds proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He once saw a man take a chicken out of his car, leave it in the park and drive away, he said.
When the chickens first appeared outside his home, he caught one with his bare hands and put it in a plastic trash can, then drove it to a park near the airport. “I took off the cover, tipped it over and the chicken ran right out,” he said. “I said … ‘Don’t come back again.’”
But he quickly realized the time-consuming effort was futile.
He’s personally not interested in killing chickens, preferring for someone to scoop them up and take them to a rural farm. A city trapping program is too expensive, he said.
The city contracts with a pest-control company that traps chickens. A weeklong service costs a private property owner $375, plus a $50 cage rental fee and disposal fee of $10 per chicken.
More than 1,300 chickens were caught through the program last year, said Honolulu Department of Customer Services spokesperson Harold Nedd, who added the department also saw a 51% increase in complaints about feral chickens in 2025.
Wild chickens aren’t likely to make a cheap dinner. The meat is tougher than poultry raised for harvesting, and the feral birds can be a vector of disease.
One of Aiona’s neighbors shoos them with a leaf blower. “I have a blower, too, but mine is electric,” Aiona said. “It can only go so far with the cord.”
Aiona has grown tired of spending his retirement telling park-goers to stop feeding the chickens. And while he doesn’t recommend that anyone eat them, he welcomes anyone who wants one to come get it.
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