Car owners parking their precious set of wheels at Singapore's premier shopping destination hardly expect that they will have to visit a carwash on the way home to blast off bird poo.

Yet that is the prospect faced by those who use the open-air carpark opposite Cineleisure Orchard just off Orchard Road, at the start of Grange Road.When Life! visited the carpark on Tuesday evening, the ground was littered with dried droppings - thanks to migrating crows.

Among the 50 or so cars parked there, only a handful were spared. Some of them were so heavily hit that they looked like a machine gun had splattered them.

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