Thank you for mentioning this! I've made a poster to put up in our building immediately so that residents can attend and learn more. This is the first and only place I've seen mention of it.
Our building employed this type of crow abatement to try to limit bird bomb deployment on our outdoor parking lot. Any reduction in that activity was limited and short term. As soon as the raptors left, the crows returned. Conclusion: Sounded like a great idea, didn’t really work, we dropped the service and saved $5K a year.
I agree, unfortunately. Any hawk patrols only produce temporary abatement. Crows are intelligent and have long memories. The pattern around our building has been the same for the last several years. Crows, rats, others are drawn to areas on their migration routes, or areas of warmth, shelter, or food. In that respect, they are not so very different from transient populations of any kind.
Mark Twain observed, “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” What may fool a cat obviously doesn't deter a crow.
Subjugating a social predator in a mew all day, then making them ride around in another wooden box hitched to the back of a car, and keeping them tied to someone’s wrist while having food withheld to make them do tricks so Mr. McPherson can make money moving some crows over a few blocks for a few weeks doesn’t sound like the best deal for the falcon. “We always try to explain that people should let wildlife be wildlife”, Mr. McPherson.
Can they train them to move the drug addicts that take over the NS line every morning?
Thank you for mentioning this! I've made a poster to put up in our building immediately so that residents can attend and learn more. This is the first and only place I've seen mention of it.
There are many mentally ill and violent people on the streets of downtown. I hope nobody tries to harm the valiant raptor.
Our building employed this type of crow abatement to try to limit bird bomb deployment on our outdoor parking lot. Any reduction in that activity was limited and short term. As soon as the raptors left, the crows returned. Conclusion: Sounded like a great idea, didn’t really work, we dropped the service and saved $5K a year.
I agree, unfortunately. Any hawk patrols only produce temporary abatement. Crows are intelligent and have long memories. The pattern around our building has been the same for the last several years. Crows, rats, others are drawn to areas on their migration routes, or areas of warmth, shelter, or food. In that respect, they are not so very different from transient populations of any kind.
Mark Twain observed, “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” What may fool a cat obviously doesn't deter a crow.
Subjugating a social predator in a mew all day, then making them ride around in another wooden box hitched to the back of a car, and keeping them tied to someone’s wrist while having food withheld to make them do tricks so Mr. McPherson can make money moving some crows over a few blocks for a few weeks doesn’t sound like the best deal for the falcon. “We always try to explain that people should let wildlife be wildlife”, Mr. McPherson.