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We continue to receive reports – almost daily – of airplane bird strikes. Some of them are relatively minor but many cause costly damage to turbines and fuselages. Occasionally, a bird strike can penetrate the cockpit of an aircraft or cause an engine to shut down. This results in the pilot having to initiate an emergency landing.

We manufacture long-lasted rugged products as we expect that they will face a battering from the weather or ..... a tractor!

Our agricultural distributor Martin Lishman Ltd was recently interviewed on local radio. Lincs FM spoke with Sarah from Lishman’s about our latest bird dispersal product, Compact. Also available as a solar powered unit, sales on this product have exceeded all expectations! Click on the link below to hear the interview.

Fox News in the USA has recently reported a marked increase in the number of reported bird strikes to aircraft in 2009. 

Martin Lishman Ltd is a Preferred Partner for Agricultural Applications of Scarecrow Products, they recently published this press release

A brief history about our founder, Tony Walker, and his life experiences.

An article, recently published in The Courier newspaper, about our latest development for bird control in the Agricultural Market, where birds cause considerable, seasonal, financial loss and contamination.

The Scarecrow Group has strengthened its management team with the appointment of two new senior members of staff.

Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems and the National Farmers Union (NFU) teamed up to offer one lucky farmer the chance of winning  Scarecrow Compact – an energy efficient integrated bio-acoustic bird dispersal system designed specifically for use in agricultural environments.

The first UK Bio-Acoustic Bird Dispersal product powered by Renewable Energy, Leading the way in energy efficient Bio-Acoustics for agricultural, urban and rural environments

A new video demonstration of ULTIMA in operation is now available to view online.

The Scarecrow Group has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Dan Walker as Sales Manager of both Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems and Communication Technology. Dan joins from Lorlin Electronics where he was Sales and Marketing Manager. Prior to that he held senior positions at Fair-rite SAS and Schaffner Ltd.

Larnaca and Paphos Airports in Cyprus, Tripoli in Libya and Newquay in UK are four of the latest international airports to purchase Ultima.

A US Airways Airbus A320 crash-landed into the Hudson River at 15:31 (20:31 GMT) yesterday. The Commercial airliner had taken off from LaGuadria Airport, New York bound for Charlotte, North Carolina.

Brighton based bird control specialists, Clean Dimensions, have aided a local resident with a serious Starling issue.

Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems Ltd has been sharing its knowledge across the world at the ACI World Safety Seminar, Beijing and the joint International Bird Strike Committee/CENIPA meeting, Brasilia. 

Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems have added more functionality to the already comprehensive bird dispersal and wildlife management system, Ultima. After working closely with their worldwide network of users, Scarecrow has expanded the products airfield data recording capabilities.

Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems were visited recently by Airport Operations Consultants MJ Associates

Scarecrow Bio-acoustic Systems, the leading international innovator in bird dispersal technology, today announces the appointment of two new board members; Tom Diamond as Group Commercial Director and Lee Pannett as Operations Director. 

The world’s oldest surviving Victorian battleship, HMS Warrior 1860, has been battling the enemy in the form of the feathery kind. Moored at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for the last twenty years, the renowned battleship has not only been attracting interest from the public but also from a number of nuisance pigeons, starlings and seagulls.

Scarecrow Bio-acoustic Systems provide innovative solutions that help to protect food production facilities against nuisance bird problems.

Luton Airport has installed the latest in Airside bird management, Ultima. Produced by UK based Scarecrow Bio-acoustic Systems, Ultima combines bird dispersal with comprehensive data logging.

Ensuring compliance of bird control data records is crucial for airports and Scarecrow’s latest and most innovative bird control technology Ultima, has been deployed at Cambridge City Airport, in order to maintain the highest possible levels of safety, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 

In the East Sussex seaside town of Newhaven, major construction work is well underway on the largest development and regeneration project this historic cross channel ferry port has ever seen. However, the increased activity in the area has attracted hundreds of nuisance Seagulls.

A recent two-day training programme held by world-renowned Scarecrow Bio-acoustic Systems Ltd, based in Uckfield, attracted delegates from as far away as Brazil. 

At Branscombe Bay in Devon, thousands of seabirds are being kept out of harm’s way on and around the MSC Napoli container shipwreck. The innovative technology implemented is more usually employed in the world’s busiest airports.

Bentley Wildfowl Reserve based near Lewes in East Sussex has been successful in keeping hundreds of predatory crows away during the breeding season by using hand held Patrol – incorporating pioneering bird dispersal technology.

On 18 January this year (2007) the MSC Napoli, in the English Channel off the coast of Cornwall and en route to South Africa, suffered structural failure and was in danger of breaking up in a force ten storm, forcing the crew to abandon ship.

Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems Ltd, based in Sussex, England, chose Inter-Airport to release Ultima, a unique tablet computer controlled development of their long established vehicle based SCARECROW PREMIER bird dispersal system. PREMIER is already in use at Delhi International Airport.

Visitors to the Scarecrow stand at CIWM’s Conference and Exhibition this summer revealed an interesting and peculiar fact: that bird control is very often undertaken only during land?ll operating hours. One representative, for example, said that a contractor came on site between 9am and 3pm.