| FAQ about Crow Busters.. |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) to crow busters:
How do we bust crows? No, we aren't like the 'pest control' companies. We don't use bird poison. Our crow-busting technique partly relies on Pavlovian [Dr. Pavlov's] responses from crows. We trained future 'king crows' to fear particular lights. This training was done when they were young. We selected particular young crows that had signs of leadership potential. These young crows grew and dominated their flocks. As 'king crows', these trained crows communicated their "fear" and passed on the "fear" of particular light combinations to lesser crows. Thus, when we flash our lights, the entire flock flees (rather, flies) away. In short, we have "programmed" crows and gulls to act a certain way, using 'coded' light signals. Sort of having a "remote control" in our hand, not for TV, but for a murder {a group) of crows. Why risks do crows represent to the people and public safety? Please do a Goggle search. You'll find references to West Nile Virus, toxic feces and diseased feathers, killing of smaller (song) biirds, among others. Most people already know that whenever crows gather, small birds disappear. Crows also carry mites and other parasites. A crow scratch, though, carries the potential to cause (transfer) virus and bacteria from their claws to our skin. It can be a serious scratch! Why do crows gather together at night? Our best guess is to keep warm, and for mutual safety in numbers. How do crows 'take over' an area, such as a field, a farm, or even a village? Our view is that the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of crows on one spot elicits an irrational fear among animals, even man. Many people have been "attacked" (just touched, really) by crows, and forevermore (sorry, Edgar Allan Poe) fear black beasts from the sky. Just our two-cents, here, we are not biologists. The sight of crows descending before dawn from the sky is a very fearsome and potentially traumatic event, especially to children. Alfred Hitchcock's movie scared us even more. Crows, in our view, have been 'programming' us to fear them. However, what we (at WeScareCrows, the crow busters) do is to try to program them, the crows. It's a game. And the game is afoot! Do crow-calls ("caw caw caw caw caw") affect children's IQ: In the book "Side Effects", the author-doctor states that waking up abrupty due to noise causes the loss of an average of 4 IQ points to a school-age child. If you have noise (such as cawing crows) outside your bedroom windows, the potential loss of Lifetime Earnings to children compels responsible parents to take measures to eliminate these noises. How to cawl, er, reach the crow busters .. Contact Us by Email: WeScareCrows @ Yahoo.com (remove all spaces from the email address above - blank spaces were added to block spammers) |
| This photo above is what the crow sees, looking down on us: A "scary" guy with lights on the top of his face, coloured lights flashing a code that trained crows have already alerted their brother and sister crows to avoid. |
| Crow droppings (above photo) and feathers. They are a health hazard. Here is a Goggle search on diseases (not limited to West Nile) or mites carried by crows and their cousins. Did you ever have Salmonella poisoning, and wondered where it came from? Did you know crows carry Marek's Disease, affecting poultry and other birds. |
| Crows and gulls love to roost on girders because (we believe) it gives them a commanding view. We could be wrong, so check out other FAQ's on this subject. They also prefer places where their cawing (noises) are reflected off walls, seemingly causing an amplified sound, as crows love to dominate an area. Thus, you'll find them roosting where there are high walls, or tall trees with tall buildings nearby. This is a photo of one site that we cleared of very large flocks of in-transit crows, before dawn. |