New research shows that standard goose harassment tactics are horribly ineffective at shooing — and keeping — away geese.
, found that standard goose "harassment" tactics are horribly ineffective at shooing — and keeping — away the notoriously human-hating birds, even if the harassment causes them to flee momentarily.
"I thought using these Fitbit-like devices on the neck collar was a creative way to understand resting, flying, or foraging behaviors... I was very eager to see what the results were," said Mike Ward, a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at Illinois and coauthor on the study, in a"Basically, when you harass, they fly a little bit more because you're scaring them... but it wasn't a fundamental difference," he added.
"When they're not being harassed, they're making the choice to leave the park because it's beneficial to them — there's a resource elsewhere they want to access," Ryan Askren, a former Illinois doctoral student and study coauthor, said in the release. "Whereas when we're harassing them, they probably have a biological reason to be there. There's some sort of resource, such as food or water, and they want to be there at that moment.
"If a bird is hanging around Chicago in winter, it's probably not in good shape," Ward said in the statement. "It's cold and doesn't have a lot of food."
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