Solar-powered scarecrow deployed to keep birds away from electrical equipment

The solar power electronic scarecrow

UK: A solar-powered scarecrow that mimics the calls of a hawk is being used to humanely scare away birds which were damaging overhead line equipment and the pantographs of Avanti West Coast Pendolino trainsets at Alstom’s Longsight depot.

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