Bird Pest Control - Scarecrow, Bird Scarer, Bird Control Spike, Starlicide, Bird Control, Avicide, Goose Egg Addling, Bird Netting (Paperback)

Chapters: Scarecrow, Bird Scarer, Bird Control Spike, Starlicide, Bird Control, Avicide, Goose Egg Addling, Bird Netting. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A scarecrow is a device traditionally a human figure or mannequin dressed in old clothes placed in fields by farmers to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. A rather ineffective scarecrowIn Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan (compiled in the year 712), a scarecrow known as Kuebiko appears as a deity who cannot walk, yet knows everything about the world. The 1881 Household Cyclopedia of General Information gives the following advice: Crows can be a substantial problem for gardens in the springtime: they can work down a row pulling up recently sprouted corn to eat the remaining seed/seedlings. In the southern Appalachians another common method of scaring off crows was use of a dead crow hung upside down from a pole. Modern scarecrows seldom take a human shape. On California farmland, highly reflective aluminized PET film ribbons are tied to the plants to create shimmers from the sun. Another approach is automatic noise guns powered by propane gas. Korean scarecrows The scarecrow which was covered with a helmet(Japan)In the United Kingdom, where the use of scarecrows as a protector of crops dates from time immemorial, and where dialects were rife, there are a wide range of alternative names such as: Alternative names for scarecrows also include these localized versions: (Trudgill, Peter. Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society. London: Penguin Books, 2000) The impact of the scarecrow extends beyond its immediate utilitarian function. Scarecrows feature in literature and in festivals. In the 1719 novel...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1963779