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<title>Watertown scares away thousands of crows with pyrotechnics, noise</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 15, 2013) It&apos;s an eerie sight: Every winter, around dusk each night, a flock of between 20,000 and 30,000 crows gathers in the trees around the Black River in Watertown. They can be a neat sight against the white winter landscape, but the city wants them gone. That&apos;s because they squawk and poop and generally annoy a lot of city residents. The city has hired a wildlife management company to disperse the birds. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21246/20130115/watertown-scares-away-thousands-of-crows-with-pyrotechnics-noise">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Joanna Richards</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It&apos;s an eerie sight: Every winter, around dusk each night, a flock of between 20,000 and 30,000 crows gathers in the trees around the Black River in Watertown. They can be a neat sight against the white winter landscape, but the city wants them gone. That&apos;s because they squawk and poop and generally annoy a lot of city residents. The city has hired a wildlife management company to disperse the birds. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21246/20130115/watertown-scares-away-thousands-of-crows-with-pyrotechnics-noise">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>photolead, environment, hazing, crows, tijf, watertown, jefferson county, land management, [loc:43.9747838 -75.9107565], nature, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Crow &quot;hazing&quot; continues Tuesday, Wednesday nights in Watertown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 10, 2012) In Watertown, wildlife biologists will be out  “crow hazing” tonight. They’re trying to scare away the city’s huge winter population of the birds.  It’s estimated there are as many as 30,000 crows roosting in Watertown right now. Nora Flaherty has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19088/20120110/crow-quot-hazing-quot-continues-tuesday-wednesday-nights-in-watertown">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In Watertown, wildlife biologists will be out  “crow hazing” tonight. They’re trying to scare away the city’s huge winter population of the birds.  It’s estimated there are as many as 30,000 crows roosting in Watertown right now. Nora Flaherty has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19088/20120110/crow-quot-hazing-quot-continues-tuesday-wednesday-nights-in-watertown">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<title>Watertown plans winter &quot;crow hazing&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18421/20110916/watertown-plans-winter-quot-crow-hazing-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 16, 2011) It’s not winter quite yet…but Watertown is already thinking about one recurring winter problem. Every year, the city’s population increases dramatically—by the seasonal arrival of 15,000-20,000 crows.The city considers the crows to be a nuisance and employs a tactic called “crow hazing”—it’s generally, although not always, a non-lethal method to convince the crows to go elsewhere.  The city council’s in the process of deciding which of several crow hazing services to use for this task. Nora Flaherty spoke with Elliott Nelson at the city manager’s office about Watertown&apos;s crow problem, and what &quot;crow hazing&quot; entails. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18421/20110916/watertown-plans-winter-quot-crow-hazing-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It’s not winter quite yet…but Watertown is already thinking about one recurring winter problem. Every year, the city’s population increases dramatically—by the seasonal arrival of 15,000-20,000 crows.The city considers the crows to be a nuisance and employs a tactic called “crow hazing”—it’s generally, although not always, a non-lethal method to convince the crows to go elsewhere.  The city council’s in the process of deciding which of several crow hazing services to use for this task. Nora Flaherty spoke with Elliott Nelson at the city manager’s office about Watertown&apos;s crow problem, and what &quot;crow hazing&quot; entails. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18421/20110916/watertown-plans-winter-quot-crow-hazing-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:23</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, environment, Watertown, crows, nuisance, wildlife, USDA, [loc:43.9747838 -75.9107565], tijf, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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