Subject: Crows be jammin'
Date: Feb 6 09:03:08 1997
From: Ellen Blackstone - vaccine at u.washington.edu


Crows--they're everywhere! they're everywhere! EB


11:25 AM ET 02/05/97

Romanian journalists battle signal-jamming crows


BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuter) - Journalists at a radio station
in southern Romania have to act as scarecrows to chase away
birds which sit on the station's aerial and hamper broadcasts
daily, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.
Daily Tineretul Liber said reporters at the private Orion
radio station, in the town of Cimpulung, take turns to climb on
the station's roof and shout and wave at scores of crows which
have turned the station's aerial into a favorite playground.
Broadcasts are jammed whenever the antenna shakes under the
weight of the often feuding crows, which live in large numbers
near the city, the paper said.
REUTER