Contraceptive pellets will be placed in special rat-accessible traps starting next year, lowering their numbers humanely without endangering other animals or the environment, its supporters hope.

Rita McMahon, director of the Wild Bird Fund joins CBS New York to discuss how this new bill will help protect raptors, such as New York City's beloved owl, Flaco.

The Council last week passed a bill mandating the city's health and sanitation departments team up for six months to target several Manhattan neighborhoods with rat bait laced with rodent birth control.