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Cockatoos are eating my new decking!
TerraHertz:
cdev:
I used to have a friend who used to have me take care of her apartment, to feed and check up on Sophie, her salmon crested cockatiel when she was out of town. She was a really smart and special bird. Almost human. She always would be curious about what I was doing and she was very playful. I suppose I can imagine sort of what its like to have intelligent birds around (because we have crows, corvids) but parrots are so gregarious and smart.
What I would do is try to mimic animals that are scary for them. Fake snakes might help. Also smells from other predatory animals. Some animals dont like human smell so a bag of hair clippings and sprinkling the hair clippings around keeps them away. Another thing that might help is a PIR set to be sensitive enough to trigger on parrots (their body temperature is as high or even higher than ours is) connected to trigger a xenon flash tube.
--- Quote from: Halcyon on March 16, 2016, 07:56:51 am ---Those bastards! Anyone have any ideas on how to stop Cockatoos eating my brand new merbau deck, that doesn't involve a projectile?
Is there something I can spray that they absolutely hate? It seems they don't appreciate the taste of the stain/lacquer but it takes them a few bites to realise it. These birds are absolutely huge! As big as cats, I'll snap a photo if I can catch them next time.
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Gregg:
Green laser pointer with a pattern lens works well on ducks and geese after sunset when they tend to settle on my boat dock. I don't know if it would work in daylight but would be inexpensive to find out.
themadhippy:
Knew a girl who hated corvids,but liked a Cockatoo.
vk6zgo:
Back in the day, white cockatoos would appear in thousands in the tropical North of Western Australia, & sit on the Boab trees,(the trees are the same species as the African Baobab,) making them look like they were in flower.
That was harmless, but their favourite "party trick" was to cluster in huge groups on the pole route (phone
landline) South of Wyndham WA.
They would swing back forth, until they managed to entangle the wires.
This would cause feedback on the carrier telephone system.
The incoming & outgoing channels were on separate frequencies, but get enough coupling & it would overwhelm the filtering, so the whole system would go into oscillation.
This always happened just when atmospheric conditions were at their worst for the backup HF Radio system.
Back in the present, my major problem is Ibises stomping around on my roof.
I'm too old to climb up on the roof & yell at them, throw stuff, or shoot at them (even if that was legal, I'd probably miss the Ibis & pot a TV antenna installer in the next street).
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