do scarecrows really scare crows away?

Answer 1

it's not the look the scarecrows have that scares crows, it's the movements the scarecrow makes when the wind blows

Answer 2

Well for me, I think they really scare crows and other birds away to an extend especially when the wind is blowing. But just like trees, birds perch and live on them even when the wind blows, branches and leaves move too. So just as the bird gets used to the moving trees, so also will they get used to the scarecrows with time except a new and better innovations are created. They may be made in such a way that they can move around somehow from place to place! I have seen cases where birds perch on the scarcrows!

Answer 3

I think scarecrows can only scare away crows that have not seen one before.

Answer 4

A scarecrow is a device (traditionally a mannequin) that is used to discourage birds such as crows from disturbing crops. Not only do crows feed on recently cast seed, they also gather nightly, starting with groups of a half dozen which then unite to form a group of 20 to 30 and so on until the flock is quite large and noisy. It is their habit to return to the same place each night. Thus, it is in the interest of farmers, gardeners, and homeowners to move them along.

The 1881 Household Cyclopedia gives the following advice:

Machinery of various kinds, such as wind-mills in miniature, horse rattles, etc., to be put in motion by the wind, are often employed to frighten crows; but with all of these they soon become familiar, when they cease to be of any use whatever.
The most effectual method of banishing them from a field, as far as experience goes, is to combine with one or other of the scarecrows in vogue the frequent use of the musket. Nothing strikes such terror into these sagacious animals as the sight of a fowling-piece and the explosion of gun powder, which they have known so often to be fatal to their race.
Such is their dread of a fowling-piece, that if one is placed upon a dyke or other eminence, it will for a long time prevent them from alighting on the adjacent grounds. Many persons now, however, believe that crows like most other birds, do more good by destroying insects and worms, etc., than harm by eating grain.
Crows can be a problem in Spring gardens. 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 are automatic noise guns powered with propane gas.
In the United Kingdom, where the use of scarecrows as a protector of crops goes back to times immemorial, and where dialects were rife, there are a wide range of alternate names such as:

Mommet (Somerset)
Murmet (Devon)
Hodmedod (Berkshire)
Tattie bogle (Scotland)

SO YES,they do scare crows away:)! happy scaring!:>

Answer 5

so ive heard they actually work and crows are afraid but i think after a while the crows would catch on and just use the scare crow as a rest or something

Answer 6

scarecrows don't really scare crows away, where did you hear that ?. scarecrows just try to discourage the birds to fly away, unless they are reanimated like the one i the wizard of oz, then they can scare them away, flapping you arms and legs, and making noises to scare them off, then they will fly away, or they might fight back

Answer 7

yes they do, unless the bird is smarter than the average crow

Answer 8

In the old era, maybe yes. But today, animals are evolving and evolving, making them smart nowadays. I think animals that are being smart are now depicted in some Disney/Pixar movies, example of that is Nemo!

Answer 9

not one little bit. they're mates now.

Answer 10

NO