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The Use Of Border Collies In Avian And Wildlife Control Programs, Nicholas B. Carter
The Use Of Border Collies In Avian And Wildlife Control Programs, Nicholas B. Carter
Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings
Airports attract large numbers of wildlife primarily because they offer immense tracts of foraging and nesting habitats free from the threat of predation. Border collies can serve as an effective means of wildlife control in these environments by introducing a predator into the ecosystem. Many wildlife dispersal methods seek to imitate predators or the effect of predators and become increasingly ineffective as wildlife habituate to the stimuli. However, border collies are true predators, representing an actual, not perceived, threat to wildlife thereby eliminating the problems of habituation. Six airports and military bases have initiated use of border collies at their …
Is Translocation Effective For Reducing Raptor Strikes?, Laurence M. Schafer
Is Translocation Effective For Reducing Raptor Strikes?, Laurence M. Schafer
Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings
From March 1996 to 31 December 1999, Wildlife Services (WS) personnel trapped and relocated 316 raptors from one of the nation's busiest airports: 147 American kestrels (Falco sparverius), 158 red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis), 5 rough-legged hawks (Buteo lagopus), 4 peregrine falcons (Falcoper-egrinus), 1 northern harrier (Circus cyaneus), and 1 eastern screech owl (Otus asio). On 1 January 1999, the Federal Aviation Administration sponsored a 2-year study, in conjunction with the National Wildlife Research Center and WS-Illinois, to evaluate the efficacy of raptor relocation at the airport. This study began in September 1999 and (1) monitors the post release activity of …
The Costs Of Bird Strikes And Bird Strike Prevention, John R. Allan
The Costs Of Bird Strikes And Bird Strike Prevention, John R. Allan
Human Conflicts with Wildlife: 2002 Symposium
Collisions between birds (and other wildlife) and aircraft are known to cause substantial losses to the aviation industry in terms of damage and delays every year. Techniques exist to control bird numbers on airfields and hence to reduce the number of wildlife strikes, but they are applied at widely different levels from airport to airport. Some of this variation may be due to differing levels of strike-risk at the different sites, but much of it is due to the unwillingness or inability of the airports concerned to invest in bird strike prevention. Part of the reason for this reluctance to …