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Manatee tries sound method to shoo birds
BRADENTON Every 10 minutes, a bird calls out from the roof of the new courthouse.
It could be a red-tailed hawk or another bird of prey. Other times it is the call of a pigeon in distress.
The calls can be heard blocks away -- the high-pitched hee-hee-hee, the whistling.
But leave the binoculars in the car and the field notebooks closed.
The calls are real-life recordings that carry across downtown from two speakers, one facing east and the other west. They are supposed to minimize the presence of roosting pigeons, whose droppings have become a problem on the roof of the nine-story judicial center.
"Pigeons," says the building manager, Phillip Hoffmann, "were not a priority."
In looking for ways to solve the pigeon problem, county officials settled on a simple method from a California company called Bird-B-Gone.
Bird-B-Gone makes a product called "Bird Chase Super Sonic," which resembles a portable radio with knobs and buttons. The device, which plugs into a standard outlet, comes with two speakers designed to carry the frequency of bird calls.
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