Round a curve I scared the hell out of a flock of feral goats, and at one point, came over a rise to see the road just drop off into a slalom down to a mangrove-studded beach.
Nonsense, say the pigeon-owners, who point out that a hawk or falcon attacking a flock of 50 pigeons may get only one of them, but that the rest will be so frightened that they lose their bearings.