Okay, Tweets, here's what some of you may consider a silly question (but
too bad, cuz I'm gonna ask it anyway): *What* is an air cannon?!?

What does an air cannon look like? How does one load it? Beyond blasting
birds, what's its raison d'etre?

---Lisa

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Lisa M. Smith, Seattle WA <subplot at u.washington.edu>


On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Kas Dumroese wrote:

> For those of you who visit the Fighting Creek Landfill south of Coeur
> d'Alene, Idaho to get your yearly fix of Idaho Mew, Glaucous,
> Glaucous-winged and Thayer's Gulls, read on...
>
> The FCL has adopted a new policy, apparently to appease neighbors, to keep
> gulls from feeding at the site. They have been using air cannons, and
> unfortunately, have been very successful. Dan Svingen, who was been doing a
> census there for the past two years, said only a couple birds were present.
> It will be interesting to see if they can shoo away the huge winter flocks
> as conveniently.
>
> Kas Dumroese
> Moscow, Idaho
> dumroese at uidaho.edu
>
>