Bar In The Air

Sydney’s Kingsford Smith irport is adopting fancy mea ires to control birds which light otherwise interfere with \r traffic.

The Department of Civil viation announced in April lat it planned to control birds ithout killing them unneces irily. To do it, it would get ixidermists to prepare stuffed \rds and leave them in “dis essed” attitudes around the inways. Later it might record nd amplify bird cries from ucks. But in the meantime would put a man on full-time uty with a shotgun and blank nmunition. The noise should ?ep them off —but there would e an occasional live round be iuse “overseas experience had wwn birds become accustomed ) loud but harmless noises.”