Design

Finally, Pigeons Have Their Own Burger King

I'll take the week-old hotdog bun and a cigarette butt, please.
Povl Thomsen

America's pets are fat and out of shape. Why can't its pigeons be, too?

Copenhagen-based designer Brian Wolter is helping steer city fowl toward becoming the hilarious lardasses of the sky – or of the sidewalk, more likely, once they pack on so many pounds all they can do is feebly move their wings and waddle around. His "fly-thru" birdhouse, which he calls an appropriate feeder for the "fast-food generation of birds," is modeled after a Burger King drive-thru restaurant. Theoretically, if a pigeon wanted a quick calorie injection, it could claw a snack from the diner's floor and pig out without landing once.