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Heron Bird
What Birds Want
What Birds Want
Almost every inquiry I get about bird problems hides an underlying question of "why the heck is that bird doing this crazy thing?" While the inner workings of a bird mind may be beyond the realm of this article, we can better understand birds and why they do what they do when we start to look at what is important to them.
Bird Needs
Just like humans, birds have needs. On a regular basis they need food, water, sleep, and safety. Seasonally they may be driven to attract or select a mate, build a nest, defend a territory, and raise their young. While birds aren't sitting around introspectively making wish lists, they do have hormones driving them to satisfy these basic needs. So in some sense we can say that the birds "want" to satisfy these needs. Whenever you are dealing with a bird, you are dealing with an animal specifically designed to fulfill certain needs. Each species has its own set of needs and unique ways of satisfying those needs. Each individual bird will satisfy those needs within whatever range of behavior is available to it and in response to its current circumstances.
Food
Birds have to eat. No food, no bird. What a bird eats and how it finds its food is species specific, and is sometimes the source of conflict with humans. Fruit-eating birds become pests when they eat the fruit we want. Herons become pests when they gulp down our favorite koi in our backyard pond. But knowing what a bird eats and how it gets its food can help us thwart the hungry birds. Nets can keep birds from reaching those blueberries in your garden. Deep ponds can help the fish stay out of reach of a hungry heron. Birds are very motivated by food, since it is such a basic need. So any time you have a pest bird that is motivated by food, you probably have to create some kind of barrier that makes it physically impossible to get the food. Other deterrents—like scary decoys or other menacing visual displays—may not actually distract a bird that is really hungry!
Safety
Birds need to sleep and rest where they are not going to be disturbed or killed by a predator. When starlings or grackles take over a parking lot, or vultures flock to a water tower, they are just doing what their kind has done for millennia. They have to sleep somewhere. When they chose places that are inconvenient for us, the best thing to do is to make it impossible for the birds to be there by taking away their ability to perch or stay put for the night. If that isn't physically possible, we can make the area appear unsafe. Recorded alarm calls may work to scare birds away, but it may take a lot of alarm calls to overcome the noise of all the other birds in the flock. Since birds in a flock are usually bolder than solitary birds, it can take some serious effort to scare them away—including active harassment by a trained and licensed bird pest control expert.
Nesting
Each species has its unique nesting requirements. Unfortunately, sometimes human structures perfectly fit the requirements some birds are looking for—like protected ledges on your porch that attract robins, or gravel driveways used by Killdeer. The key in these cases is usually to alter the configuration of whatever is attracting the birds so that it no longer suits their needs. Holes birds are nesting in can be blocked and ledges can be made to not hold a nest. Just figure out what opportunity the bird is taking advantage of, and take that opportunity away. Problem solved!
Making a Mess
Birds do not need to make messes. But like all animals, they have to get rid of their bodily wastes. Out in nature, they just do this whenever they have the need, no matter where they are. If birds are hanging around, eventually they are going to leave droppings. It's unavoidable. So if they are making a mess, that just means they are hanging around because they have found a safe place to loaf, or a food source or something else is attracting them. In these cases the best way to avoid the problem is to take away their ability to hang out, by putting up a physical barrier like bird spikes or a bird spider (http://www.absolutebirdcontrol.com/products/bird-deterrents). If that isn't an option, making the area appear less safe with some kind of visually threatening or distracting deterrent may encourage the birds to go elsewhere. But birds are smart enough to figure out eventually if something really is or isn't a threat. So if you can't get rid of whatever it is that is attracting them, then it can take constant and shifting efforts to keep the birds uneasy and out of the way.
All bird pest problems are really miscommunications--we've created a perfect opportunity for a bird, but we didn't get the message until the bird shows up. We built it (or planted it), and they came. To really fix the problem we have to take away the invitation. Figure out what the bird wants, how you've created the perfect opportunity for it, and then pull back that invitation by changing the configuration of whatever it is that the bird wants. Anything else is going to take a lot more effort over time, and result in continued miscommunications with the birds that are just showing up because no matter what else we do, we're still giving them an open invitation to come and get whatever it is that they want in order to satisfy their need.
About the Author
Dr. Rob Fergus is an ornithologist who specializes in urban ecology and human/wildlife interactions. Fergus received his Ph.D. in urban bird conservation from the University of Texas at Austin. After founding the Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory in Austin, Texas he created additional bird conservation programs in Austin as the first executive director of the 2,500 member Travis Audubon Society. In 2004 he moved to suburban Philadelphia where he was the Senior Scientist for Urban Bird Conservation at the National Audubon Society until 2009. In addition to researching and consulting on human/bird interactions in cities across the United States, Latin America, and Europe, Dr. Fergus currently teaches at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J. and Rosemont College in Philadelphia, Pa.
Help identifying a bird please?
This morning we saw two very unusual birds near our pond in the garden. They looked like Curlews, but did not have the yellow legs and eyes.
Very long legs, large feet, darkish plumage with a shaft of lighter grey under the wing. Longish neck, small head, quite delicate in appearance.They seemed attracted to the pond, and dipped in and out rapidly, seeming undeterred by a stone Heron we have at the side (incidentally we do not have fish in the pond). Earlier I'd seen a Magpie seemingly swooping on one of them,
I'm so keen to know what these birds might be. Can anyone help please?
Hard to tell, since you did not say where you live. Also, you said that the bird looked similar to a Curlew, but did not give relative size.
I'll go out on a limb and say Whimbrel. did it look like this?
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?allSpecies=y&searchText=whimbrel&curGroupID=1&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=1
They have the downcurved bill like the Curlew, though not as long, and they do not have the yellow legs or eyes. They also have the long legs, but I don't know that I would describe them as delicate.
If this does not appear to be the bird you saw, perhaps you could add some detail - where (what part of the country) was it seen, size relative to the Curlews, and any other field markings you noticed.
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