WCTV news Tallahassee Airport Bird
Control
"We purchased a device
called the Avian Dissuader. Birds just don't like it,
and when they see it they just don't want to be around
it," says Jim Durwin,
Assistant Superintendent
of Operations at
Tallahassee Regional Airport.
Tinker AFB news
Birds
up to one half mile away will flee an area when the
Avian Dissuader’s red laser beam is flashed their way.
United States Department of
Agriculture and Wildlife Services biologist
Clarke Baker, back, and wildlife specialist Matt Gage
use the device in their non-lethal arsenal to keep birds
away from Tinker, protecting aircraft from
bird strikes. (Air
Force photo by Margo Wright)
Golf Course Management magazine
Nick
McCraw, superintendent at Balmoral
Woods Country Club near
Chicago and an 11-year GCSAA member, has been happy with
the results of his Avian Dissuader laser. Last spring,
he reduced the flock on his course from 150 geese to 20
after using the laser every day for two weeks. “The
laser scares the heck out of the geese,” McCraw says.
“They were bumping into each other trying to get away.”
McCraw
likes the Avian Dissuader because it’s easy to use, he
can haze geese from two or three fairways away, and
replacement batteries (9-volt) are inexpensive and
readily available. “The laser is not harmful to the
geese,” McCraw says. “I like that.
Bird/Aircraft Strike Hazard Evaluation at
U.S. Naval Air Stations, CA
Under Interagency Agreements with the U.S. Navy, NWRC
biologists from Fort Collins, CO, are evaluating
bird/aircraft strike hazard problems at Point Mugu
and San Clemente Naval Air Stations, CA, and
assessing habitat modification management techniques. At
both naval air stations, researchers are using a
geographic information system (GIS) to record habitat
types adjacent to runways and the numbers, species,
locations, altitudes and local movements of birds on and
near airfields. NWRC researchers also evaluated the use
of the Avian Dissuader (a low-power laser hazing
device) for dispersing birds at Point Mugu Naval Air
Station. For three days, lasers were used to haze
waterfowl, turkey vultures, shorebirds, herons, and
red-tailed hawks at night. After 2000 hrs (10 PM), the
laser was used successfully to haze all waterfowl
species except for American coots.
St. Louis - Federal employees shoo crows away with
lasers
(KMOV news) -- Every winter,
thousands of crows move in and roost on high rise
buildings at the Washington University medical center.
The birds leave behind a dirty mess that can also be a
health hazard. This year, the federal government is
joining the fight against the birds. Monday night, they
waged the first nonviolent battle.
As sundown approaches, they roll in
by the thousands. In a nightly invasion, the crows first
take up positions to the east toward Downtown, and then
waves of crows claim the rooftops of the high-rise
buildings of Washington University Medical Center.
"Birds just have a tendency to go
where they're comfortable and they keep going back year
after year after year," says Rosemary Heinen of the USDA
Wildlife Services.
It is
believed that the heat put out by the buildings attracts
this annual winter roost, but it's certain that the
invading force are ungrateful visitors, leaving behind a
dirty and unhealthy mess.
"The idea is just to keep as many
birds away as possible because if you get a handful in,
all of them will come in," Heinen says.
This year, the medical center has
gone high tech bringing in laser equipped federal
troops.
"It does not hurt the birds. It does
not hurt their eyes or anything like that. It's just a
mild irritant," Heinen says.
Three Wildlife Service employees from
the U.S. Agriculture Department have been contracted to
run the birds off with lasers designed for this. The
lasers seem to work, after a while, these birds won't
even try to get back in if they're lasered enough.
