A Harris Hawk is acting as a winged crusader to scare away gulls and pigeons in London.
Footage shows four-year-old Stella swooping around city landmarks to keep other birds from fouling or roosting on buildings.
As she glides through the sky she watches over St Paul’s Cathedral and the Millenium Bridge to name just a couple of the sites.
Stella has been trained in Kent, at The Hawking Centre, and travels from the county to patrol the capital.
Ben Bartlett, falconer for Rentokil Pest Control, said: “Stella is a valued member of the pest control team.
“This is a completely natural and humane method of pest control, as no harm is brought to bird populations, they are just encouraged to move to other areas where they will not cause an issue.”
She is taken into London most days and is part of a “focused strategy to pigeons and gulls”, while she and her compatriots can also be deployed elsewhere in the UK.
Mr Bartlett said this is because they can “cause a health and safety risk or a nuisance to traders”.
