Scare Birds facts

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Fireworks are totally illegal in Florida, but are sold to ordinary people in huge quantities via hundreds of stores across the state to anyone who signs a waiver saying they're for agricultural use to scare birds away from crops.

Disney uses bird deterrents to scare birds away from the Eiffel Tower in France, Epcot so they can keep the illusion that the tower is actually close to life size and not only 103 feet tall.

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1. Drongo Birds Warn Meerkats of Incoming Threats to Earn Their Trust and Later Falsley Warn Them to Scare Them Off Their Hunt and Steal it.

2. When male alpacas are fighting they make a bird-like cry which is meant to scare the other alpacas.

3. In Florida and some other states, it is illegal to use fireworks for recreational use. They must be used for agricultural purposes, such as scaring away birds from farms or fish hatcheries.

4. Toronto Pearson Airport uses falcons, hawks, eagles, and dogs to scare away (or even eat) nuisance birds, preventing them from flying into plane engines.

5. Poon Lim survived at sea for 133 days by fishing and killing birds. When the blood attracted sharks, scaring away the fish, he killed the sharks with a jug of water and ate and drank their blood.

6. The xylophone has been used for purposes other than music. In Senegal it was used to scare monkeys and birds and other pests from people's gardens.

7. In Australia some raptors are deliberately setting fire to forests by wielding burning sticks. Actually, the birds are trying to scare the small animals away from the fire, which makes hunting easier.

8. Capture Myopathy. A condition where hoofstock, birds, and insects can drop dead of being scared.

9. Edmonton Intl Airport intends to deploy robotic falcons in order to scare away nearby birds that might otherwise pose a threat to aircraft.

10. About Nongqawuse, a self proclaimed prophet from the Xhosa tribe in Africa. In 1856, when she was scaring birds off her uncle's property, she claimed she heard voices that told her the Xhosa needed to kill their cattle. That they did, and 40,000 people starved to death.

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Some airports use Lasers to scare birds!

Sky scrappers in Dubai have 22 trained eagles to keep the birds away from the buildings in order to refrain birds from making nest on buildings. These eagles belonged to a company Al-HUR Falconry. These eagles are trained not to kill any bird but to scare them away - source

Drongo Birds Warn Meerkats of Incoming Threats to Earn Their Trust and Later Falsley Warn Them to Scare Them Off Their Hunt and Steal it. - source

Mr. Snuffleupagus was finally met the human cast of Sesame Street due to a string of high-profile pedophilia cases. The writers felt by having the adults refuse to believe Big Bird, they were scaring children into thinking their parents would not believe them if they had been sexually abused.

In 1958 dictator Mao Zedong ordered people in the country side to kill sparrows by beating drums to scare the birds from landing, forcing them to fly until they died of exhaustion. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of mankind - source

Dancing inflatable tube men were invented for the 1996 Olympics Opening ceremony, and are used to scare birds away from fields.

About Reagan National Airport Bird Cannons: Air guns that are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.