An interesting story for those like me that occasionally took a lonely drive around an airfield with a tape player sounding out distress calls, shotgun and very pistol. The bird control unit (BCU) ...

Birds threatened by a predator often call out to encourage other birds to make noise and fly about, repelling the attacker as part of a “mobbing flock”. Now, researchers have found that male lyrebirds ...

What does it take to scoot birds away from a field? More, maybe, than you might imagine. Augustina Pruteanu and colleagues at the National Institute of Research-Development for Machines and ...

Birds are not welcome around the runway at Robins. They can cause damage to aircraft and in some cases can even bring a plane down. The base has long used a range of methods to keep birds away from ...

This October, nine government employees will be patrolling North Dakota’s sunflower fields using every possible means to scare birds. The agents from USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection ...

Every year in the days leading up to New Year’s Eve and the Fourth of July, Floridians get very concerned about scaring birds away from their fish hatcheries. So much so that thousands of them send ...