Joe the wonder dog
Joe the wonder dog
For some light hearted humor (promise Mods I won't mention the 'Q' word so no need to lock this one up so quickly). The Today show this morning featured 'Joe the wonder dog' as a black Lab patrolling for want of a better word the Cooly Airport for bird activity. The trainer/owner would accompany 'Joe' out onto the grass lands in & around the AD to scare off any birds on the ground. Trouble is all 'joe' is really doing is making the birds take flight to increase the chance of a bird strike. Of course the film footage showed copious quantities of J* (aka Today show) A/C coming & going which was a nice propaganda touch:-) I can just see the news now.'Joe' the wonder dog wanders out onto the runway/taxiway in hot pursuit of a wayward Ibis & gets squashed or cooked, the birds would be rubbing their wings together, birds 1, Joe 0:-) Still I guess someone thinks they are helping the bird problem.
Big money spent on bird scaring tactics these days.
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Big money spent on bird scaring tactics these days.
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Of course the film footage showed copious quantities of J* (aka Today show) A/C coming & going which was a nice propaganda touch:-)
WOOF!
the smarts...
While flocks of birds, or just a single bird*, in the wrong place are hazardous, but sometimes interventions dont go as planned either.
Once witnessed at airport XXX a groundsman go out to the strip as there was a lone hawk thermalling just off to the left of. As a C 206 got airborne he took a pot shot at the hawk,missed,the hawk broke right to be over the strip and was impacted by the 206. Splat.!
Nice timing that man.!
I suppose you could say that he got rid of the hawk... but certainly not by the intended method.
* saw pictures this week of a starling sized bird that got swallowed by a helicopter turbine, leaving not much of itself and a $50K bill.!
Once witnessed at airport XXX a groundsman go out to the strip as there was a lone hawk thermalling just off to the left of. As a C 206 got airborne he took a pot shot at the hawk,missed,the hawk broke right to be over the strip and was impacted by the 206. Splat.!
Nice timing that man.!
I suppose you could say that he got rid of the hawk... but certainly not by the intended method.
* saw pictures this week of a starling sized bird that got swallowed by a helicopter turbine, leaving not much of itself and a $50K bill.!
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Sorry to digress, but isn't the 'Today Show' on Nine? Not the Jetstar loving channel!
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They have been using border collies for the same purpose for a while in the UK. Would be more effective to use the dogs to flush out the birds then take them out with a shot gun.
Safety out come of scaring birds = bugger all - the same birds come back the next day, or 20 minutes later (talk to some one who has done some bird scaring for more insight)
Safety out come of shooting birds = birds don't come back.
Safety out come of scaring birds = bugger all - the same birds come back the next day, or 20 minutes later (talk to some one who has done some bird scaring for more insight)
Safety out come of shooting birds = birds don't come back.
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JEEZUZ, don't let Bob Down Brown hear that precious little fluffy birdies are threatened by nasty carbon spewing aeroplanes - there will be a bill passed within DAYS to ban all aircraft from operating within a 10 km radius of bird activity.........
Believe it or not........
Some years ago in Derby there was a program to 'get rid of' some of the numerous birds in the area.
The idea was 'from Canberra' and was to capture some of the offending bird species, and, wait for it,.....
Torture the bird caught, record the sounds of the bird under torture, then play back those sounds to the local bird population to see if they would 'disperse'....i.e. Get out of the locality of the ad......
True story.
Not too sure of the outcome, but don't think it was 'successful'.....least of all for the birds so caught.
Some 'Derbyites' from the mid 80's might remember......
Some years ago in Derby there was a program to 'get rid of' some of the numerous birds in the area.
The idea was 'from Canberra' and was to capture some of the offending bird species, and, wait for it,.....
Torture the bird caught, record the sounds of the bird under torture, then play back those sounds to the local bird population to see if they would 'disperse'....i.e. Get out of the locality of the ad......
True story.
Not too sure of the outcome, but don't think it was 'successful'.....least of all for the birds so caught.
Some 'Derbyites' from the mid 80's might remember......
Interesting article in the latest Wired mag about an airport in the US that has a falconer for bird scaring duties. He rocks up with his bird of prey and it flies around and scares off the other birds.
