> Yet another bird-related news item...for your information!
> Shannon, Whidbey Island WA zone 7
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> > Yahoo! News
> > Thursday January 21 11:35 AM ET
> >
> > It's vultures versus the law in bird war
> >
> > TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Vultures are flocking to a federal courthouse in Tampa but the lawyers are not amused.
> >
> > Up to 200 turkey buzzards, members of the carrion-eating vulture family, have taken to roosting on the 17-story Sam M.
> > Gibbons U.S. Courthouse, fouling it with their droppings and rotten leftovers, building manager George Post said Wednesday.
> >
> > The birds, which have wing spans of up to six feet, also bump at the windows, Post said.
> >
> > Last week, building managers installed electronic speakers that emit a chirping sound designed to annoy the buzzards.
> >
> > ``These devices are made to keep pests away from agricultural crops. It is a very unpleasant sound for the birds,'' Post told
> > Reuters.
> >
> > ``Different models have different sounds. If you get the wrong model it can attract birds,'' he said.
> >
> > The buzzard-busters seem to be working. Post said the flock at the building had been reduced to fewer than 20, but he added
> > that the electronic chirping is also ``somewhat annoying to people''.
> >
> > ``It's driving us crazy,'' John Bell, director of a nearby theater, told the Tampa Tribune.