VIEW Hardly a Birdbrained Idea What do you do when you have more than 20,000 starlings roosting and making a mess each night at an oil refi nery? Last winter, the CHS refi nery in McPherson, Kan., faced that dilemma. Employees tried scaring away birds with balloons and noise makers, but within a short time the starlings learned to ignore their eff orts and returned. Then the avian pests were introduced to a falcon named Willow. After attaching a small green light to Willow’s leg, the falconer fl ew her around the refi nery, showing the starlings that a green light meant a predator was near. Without hurting the starlings, JULY/AUGUST 2014 CHSINC.COM 16
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