what is a good safe way to control crows or ward them away?

Question

they wont leave my yard ,a large no. of them

Answer 1

A 12 gage shotgun

Answer 2

i hate fucckingcrows. i just find one free day sit outside the yard with my work and throw Coke bottles at any crows that dare to land.

Generally you would want to remove all rubbishs whether there are edible or not as that dumb animal will eat anything. And if you have fruits you might consider wrapping the fruits in mini tough rubbish bags.

If you have a gun and some cheap bullets, they do make good shooting targets but since most Aussies don't own guns i guess you have to stick with the paintball pellets or the cricket balls. good luck mate. i hate crows. there's more of them in summer!

Answer 3

Rubber snakes, plastic owls. Apparently Crows are afraid of owls. Mylar tape hung on lines might work.

Here's some good ideas:


Lines - This technique is done by stretching cord or fine wire at intervals across a field at heights of 6-8 feet. Aluminum strips, Mylar stripes and/or pie tins could be tied to the wire. Studies have shown that different species react differently from lines. Generally adult birds are more repelled by lines than juveniles.

Tree Roosts - Thinning the branches on specific roosting trees make the trees less attractive and disperse nuisance birds from roosting.

Frightening - Frightening is effective in getting nuisance birds to disperse from roost sites and some crop areas. Recorded distress or alarm calls can be used. Other frightening devices include:

battery operated alarm clocks
shell crackers and bird bombs subject to local ordinances
lights, bright objects, clapper devices, and/or a variety of noise makers
hanging Mylar tape in roosting trees.
Changing the location, intensity and types of scare devices will improve their effectiveness.

http://www.pestproducts.com/crows.htm

Answer 4

Do you have a fruit or nut tree in your backyard? If so, you may have to cut it down.

Don't bother with a hawk because crows/ravens will gain up on a hawk.

Answer 5

keep your yard free of food scraps

get a dog or a cat or a tiger

put a rotating device

ask your local counsel for advice

Answer 6

There isn't a bag limit on crows, so I'm not sure what your problem is. (or is the limit just real high?)

Answer 7

they were attacking my cat 2 against 1,i just throw bread out for em and they thumb up their beaks and leave

Answer 8

When wildlife becomes an urban pest, the best way to solve the problem is one that includes your whole community.

First define the problem:
GRACKLES, BLACKBIRDS and CROWS
Grackles are 11-14 inches long, black with iridescent plumage and V-shaped tails. Most types of blackbirds are slightly smaller and black with less iridescence. Likewise, crows are black, but much larger (15-18 inches from tip of beak to tip of tail) and have bristle-like feathers around their bills. Grackles, blackbirds and crows congregate by the thousands at roosts, causing an irritating cacophony; their droppings have the potential to cause human disease. [2]

The secondary problem in many areas is that these birds are protected (from death) by law. It is possible to get permits to kill or remove wildlife pests, but you should check before any eradication program begins, and gets you in trouble.

If you are concerned about crop losses from wildlife pests, then driving the pests to your neighbor's crop is not the best solution.

Wildlife pests (Wipes) need three things: Food, water, and a place to sleep and raise young.

First, your goal as a community needs to be determined.
A. Do you want to make the Wipes go somewhere else, or
B. Do you want to kill them?
If B, then C. Do you need a permit?

If you only want them to go somewhere else, you need to remove their sources of food and water. Neither is easy, but food is the first item to remove. There are natural or large sources of water that the Wipes may use.

Urban Wipes are eating gardens, pets, bird's eggs and hatch-lings, and garbage.

Garbage is a community problem. How it is set out for removal, removed, and how it is dumped, all contribute to the food supply of Wipes. When the community modifies its garbage handling, it removes a major source of food from Wipes. For an individual, this means that you must have secure garbage cans whose lids are not easily opened. No edible garbage is placed in sacks on the ground. Wipes can easily get into either paper or plastic sacks.

Gardens and plantings that are being eaten can be protected by a combination of nets, traps, string lines, hanging lines and moving (and sometimes sound emitting) 'Scare-Wipes.'

String lines, hanging lines and 'Scare-Wipes' are only useful to drive Wipes away from that location. They will only go somewhere else, and can return later. All of the scare tactics are temporary and have low efficiency.

Traps need to suit the specific Wipes. For small garden crops and Wipes, simple mousetraps or rat-traps will suffice. A mousetrap will in fact catch a crow on the lawn and scare away other crows for a while. But with a lot of crows, this is too inefficient. Poisons are generally a bad idea. They pollute the area, and my cause death to the Wipes only after it has returned to its 'home' which may be inside a structure, causing a bad odor.

For large numbers of Wipes, such as flocks of crows, a good trap is a mist net. [3] This trap is placed in the flight path of the birds:
From listserv.arizona.edu
Today we set up one 12 meter long mist net and trapped for 7 hours from 9 AM to 4 PM. ... A total of 118 birds were captured - representing 4 species:
House sparrow (Passer domesticus) - 3
House finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) - 1
Intermediate flicker (Colaptes auratus) - 1
Gray crowned rosy finches (Leucosticte tephrocotis) - 113
[1]
Such a net is capable of trapping a large number of birds, either to release elsewhere, or for extermination. Under no circumstances should any trapped birds be cut free from the mist-net in case they escape with netting still attached to them only to die cruelly elsewhere..

Trapped birds should be handled according to applicable laws. In fact the 'handler' may need a license first. Friendly birds or protected birds should be handled with care. A mist-net will catch everything that flies into it. It should be an 'event' with a start and end time at which time the 'good' birds are separated from the 'bad' birds and freed, and the 'bad' birds are handled according to the applicable laws. Mist nets should not just be set up and left to kill everything that flies into them.

To protect you property, use string lines. These are simply nylon fishing lines that are strung around your property at the height of the flight paths of the Wipes. Basically, birds know that these lines can injure them and will avoid them.

To protect fruit trees, cover them with a net.

To remove trees as Wipes' roosting or nesting sites, put string lines in the flight paths into the trees and inside the branches to make them inconvenient for the nesting Wipes' use. Take care in attaching the lines to the branches as they can last a long time, and it is possible that the tree could be damaged if lines are simply tied tightly around the branches. A loop at the end of the line through which the line is passed allows a loose attachment to the branch. Hangings are simply lines that are only attached at one end, and left to hang down through the tree. Sometimes cassette tape is used for hangings since it is easier for the birds to see because it flutters in the breeze. Tie a button to one end of the hang line so it will in fact 'hang' and not just get tangled in the tree.

The birds don't know that a hanging is not a string line, and will avoid it. There needs to be some real string lines in the tree and around the area outside the tree that make flight in the area inconvenient. Wipes are smart and lazy. They will avoid string lines because string lines can break their wings or necks.

Remember to check the applicable laws before embarking on a Wipes Control Program. It may be best to contact a professional pest control service and let them do it.

Remember, there are many forms of wildlife, and indiscriminate trapping or killing does more harm than good.

;-D Be careful climbing around in the tree. Don't fall out and break your neck, and don't break small branches of the tree either. Broken branches invite tree parasites.

Answer 9

When you say 'control' do you mean kill?

Don't poison them! You will kill other innocent animals.

Answer 10

a scarecrow...

its in the name...