{"id":747035,"date":"2022-01-12T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/watch-california-city-may-use-lasers-to-combat-nuisance-crows\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T23:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:53:52","slug":"watch-california-city-may-use-lasers-to-combat-nuisance-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/watch-california-city-may-use-lasers-to-combat-nuisance-crows\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: California city may use lasers to combat nuisance crows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/California-city-may-use-lasers-to-combat-nuisance-crows.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"kbFmfvh_5aE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunnyvale Looking at High Tech to Combat Crows Flocking the City\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbFmfvh_5aE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 12 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A California city in which thousands of crows have become a public nuisance is turning to a potential high-tech solution: lasers.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Sunnyvale said the crows frequently are seen flocking over the downtown area, covering sidewalks and outdoor seating areas with their droppings.\n<\/p>\n<p>Locals also complained that the crows create a large amount of noise at night with their calls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Caltrain right there, and it actually competes with Caltrain in terms of noise pollution in the downtown area,&#8221; Vice Mayor Alysa Cisneros told KNTV.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Larry Klein said the city has tried numerous methods of driving the birds away, but none showed any long-term success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve tried multiple things. In the past, we&#8217;ve had falcons, we&#8217;ve put reflectors in our trees, and nothing seems to help,&#8221; Klein told KGO-TV.<\/p>\n<p>The city is preparing to start a pilot program to test green lasers to drive the crows away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s far better than spending hundreds of dollars to spray wash the sidewalks every few weeks or spray wash Murphy Avenue because of that health risk,&#8221; Klein said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Audubon Society said they are worried about the plan.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have real concerns about the use of lasers,&#8221; said Matthew Dodder, executive director of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society. &#8220;Lasers can blind the birds, which is a death sentence for the birds because they can&#8217;t see, they can&#8217;t fly or feed properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 12 (UPI) &#8212; A California city in which thousands of crows have become a public nuisance is turning to a potential high-tech solution: lasers. Residents of Sunnyvale said the crows frequently are seen flocking over the downtown area, covering sidewalks and outdoor seating areas with their droppings. Locals also complained that the crows create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}