Bird Gard Pt 1
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with immediately’s Fruit Grower Report. Are chook pests providing you with suits round your crops, chopping into your manufacturing? Sisters, Oregon-based Bird Gard could possibly assist.
Bird Gard President and CEO, Kyle Cummings says it’s a high-tech methodology to repel the birds with minimal influence on the setting …
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 chook name sounds, Cummings says, are the important thing …
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 all the time the identical sounds …
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 actually fairly 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 extra on Bird Gard to guard your crop from “those pesky birds.”
Bird pests inflicting issues for you? Go to www.birdgard.com … or name direct at 541-549-0205.
