Pesticide application on edible plants is disastrous when the user is illiterate and the consumer is ignorant. This
situation prevails where mono cropping is practiced. If informed human being can tackle such problem to some
extent but it is beyond the tolerance of wildlife. The purpose of present study was to curtail the use of chemical
pesticides in the agsro-wildlife ecosystem by evolVing and introducing mechanical pest control as well as pest
repellent devices. Mechanical devices were found safe and helpful for the conservation of wildlife and the
habitats. Multi-mirror reflector made with 6 (six) multidirectional mirrors (wind as well as battery driven) and a
distress sound call player (auto reverse) were used for repelling the bird pests from cropped area using reflection
webs and bird sounds respectively. Due to adjustable height, the reflector device was found to be very effective
against the attack of house sparrows (Passervs domestics) on wheat. The use of Distress Sound player reduced
the number of house crows, parakeets, mynahs and bulbuls from 40 to 25, 75 to 18, 27 to 15 and 67 to 49
respectively. Whereas the number of house sparrows damaging wheat also decreased from 510 to only 8 when
Multi Mirror Reflector was used.
Shahid Hafeez, Zahoor Hussain Khan, Rashid Ahmad Khan, Ihsan Qader, M. Ahsan Khan. (2007) Studies Of Multi Mirror Reflector And Distress Sound Player (Auto-reverse) As Bird Pest Repellants, , Volume-44, Issue-1.
