Brattleboro Reformer

Airports use cannons, dogs, guns to scare away birds

BOSTON -- Birds like those believed to have crippled a US Airways jetliner in New York have been a danger to aviation since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright, so airports use everything from hawks ...
La Crosse Tribune

Farmer loses bid to use noise-making cannons to keep blackbirds away

MADISON—For the second time, a Trempealeau County farmer’s legal challenge to a bird scare gun ordinance has failed. Wendell and Carlton Klein jointly farm the 500-acre King Farms operation in the ...
WVEC

Pistol noise used to scare off birds in Portsmouth

PORTSMOUTH -- You could hear some loud bangs Monday in the Port Norfolk area. Some homeowners are trying to scare off the Great Egret birds in the Lynne Shores neighborhood. They're using pistols and ...
WiscNews

Trempealeau County farmer loses bid to use noise-making cannons to keep blackbirds away

For the second time, a Trempealeau County farmer’s legal challenge to a bird scare gun ordinance has failed. Wendell and Carlton Klein jointly farm the 500-acre King Farms operation in the town of ...