{"id":4480,"date":"2010-03-20T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T08:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2010-03-20T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T08:11:21","slug":"deterrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=4480","title":{"rendered":"Deterrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4481\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pigeonowl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pigeonowl.jpg\" alt=\"pigeon and fake owl\" title=\"pigeonowl\" width=\"680\" height=\"526\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4481\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pigeon & Fake Owl - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pigeons just know. How many times do you see them perched between bird spikes or, as in this case, within talon&#8217;s reach of a fake owl? I appreciate the cleverness that is &#8220;pigeon&#8221; and when I saw this juxtaposition, I had to freeze-frame it.<\/p>\n<p>Owls can be effective for a time . . . or for even longer periods if the owls are removed then replaced, confusing the pigeon about the owl&#8217;s viability.<\/p>\n<p>Some cities have found ingenious ways to manage pigeon populations humanely &#8212; drawing pigeons to feeding and nesting areas built especially for them. And by reducing food supplies elsewhere in town. I posted about this a few weeks ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/01\/videos-changing-our-cultural-views-of-pigeons\/\">Changing Our Cultural Views of Pigeons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigeons just know. How many times do you see them perched between bird spikes or, as in this case, within talon&#8217;s reach of a fake owl? I appreciate the cleverness that is &#8220;pigeon&#8221; and when I saw this juxtaposition, I had to freeze-frame it. Owls can be effective for a time . . . or for even longer periods if the owls are removed then replaced, confusing the pigeon about the owl&#8217;s viability. Some cities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=4480\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}