Efficacy of an inflatable deterrent for reducing New World vulture human-wildlife conflict.

ABSTRACT: Increasing urbanization coupled with spatial expansion and numerical increase of New World vulture populations has engendered a rise in human-vulture conflict, creating a need for effective tools to mitigate vulture-related damage. Visual frightening devices that mimic the presence of human or other predators can be employed in human-vulture conflict scenarios to increase perceived risk by the pest species, thereby eliciting an antipredator behavioral response, such as fleeing. One visual frightening device, inflatable scarecrows, recently proved effective at reducing passerine attendance at feral swine feeders, but their effectiveness when directed at other species and conflict scenarios has varied. Our primary objective was to evaluate an inflatable deterrent for reducing the number of b

SUBMITTER: Kluever BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10951350 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature