Bird Gard Pt 1
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with today’s Fruit Grower Report.
Are bird insects offering you fits around your crops, cutting into your production? Sisters, Oregon-based Bird Gard might have the ability to help.
Bird Gard President and CEO, Kyle Cummings says it’s a state-of-the-art technique to push back the birds with very little effect on the environment …
CUMMINGS … “What we have is an electronic repellent device. It plays randomized sounds of, say, bird distress calls, alarm signals. We also utilize predator calls to help assist in getting rid of those pesky birds.”
Those bird call sounds, Cummings says, are the secret …
CUMMINGS … “We’re trying to utilize signals that they otherwise would use themselves to say there’s danger in the area. And so, if we are able to replicate that, which we are, it’s actually using their actual, recorded sounds.”
And, Cummings says, it’s not constantly the exact same noises …
CUMMINGS … “Really randomized to the point where, you know, it’s not going to play consistently for six seconds and then stop, and then another six seconds. That’s what we really learned is, the way to prevent habituation is to help randomize those efforts.”
Cummings says it’s truly quite easy …
CUMMINGS … “The goal here being to cause them enough distress to want to leave the area, go to somewhere nearby, but away from the area we’re trying to protect.”
Tune in tomorrow for more on Bird Gard to safeguard your crop from “those pesky birds.”
Bird insects triggering issues for you? Go to www.birdgard.com … or call direct at 541-549-0205.
