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Deterrence of birds with an artificial predator, the RobotFalcon

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By Rolf F. Storms, Robert J. Musters, Hans van Gasteren, Claudio Carere
| royalsocietypublishing.org
Open AccessResearch articles Abstract Collisions between birds and airplanes can damage aircrafts, resulting in delays and cancellation of flights, costing the international civil aviation industry more than 1.4 billion US dollars annually. Driving away birds is therefore crucial, but the effectiveness of current deterrence methods is limited. Live avian predators can be an effective deterrent, because potential prey will not habituate to them, but live predators cannot be controlled entirely.
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Absence of “selfish herd” dynamics in bird flocks under threat

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By Daniel Sankey, Penryn Campus, Rolf F. Storms, Robert J. Musters
| Cell Press Verified
Highlights • Pigeons responded to a robotic falcon by turning away from its direction of flight • Centroid attraction was not favored in the chased group over control conditions • Fission or fusion responses were dependent on pigeons’ proximity to the robotic falcon Summary provides a potential mechanism to explain a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature: that of non-kin aggregations.
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