A day after swooping uninvited into St. Paul and Minneapolis, the electric scooter company known as Bird showed no signs of flying the coop.

Dozens of rentable scooters that travel up to 15 miles per hour on city streets and sidewalks appeared Tuesday morning in downtown St. Paul and downtown Minneapolis, as well as the neighborhoods of Frogtown and North Minneapolis.

St. Paul Public Works officials spoke with representatives of Los Angeles-based Bird Rides, Inc. late Tuesday afternoon and told them to remove the 100 or so electric scooters from the city right-of-way. At the time, the company said it would consider its options.

The scooters disappeared — for a few hours. Bird, which typically collects scooters overnight, dropped them off again in downtown St. Paul and Frogtown early Wednesday morning.

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Public Works officials said the company had not been in touch with them Wednesday to indicate whether they would remove the scooters or continue to operate their business without proper permits.

“We have had no communication from them one way or the other,” said Ellen Biales, a programs manager with St. Paul Public Works, on Wednesday.

Bird has a reputation for flying into cities and establishing itself, and then working with city governments to establish ground rules or permitting guidelines after the fact.

In February, the company agreed to pay $300,000 to the city of Santa Monica to settle claims that Bird had operated a business without a proper business license, operated their business on public grounds or city right-of-way without permission, and failed to comply with administrative citations. The legal agreement included funding a week-long public safety campaign.

San Francisco and Denver also banned Bird from their streets, at least until new permitting regulations are in place.

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Bird has become an established vendor in at least 22 cities, many of them on the West Coast. A competitor known as Lime or LimeBike has a greater presence on the East Coast.

Bird, in an emailed statement from a media relations firm, said Tuesday evening: “Bird reached out to the city of St. Paul before launch, and had a productive conversation with their team today.”