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| Subject: | Blue-faced honeyeaters and banana plantations |
| From: | "Terry Bishop" <> |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:22:51 +1100 |
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The orchardist around Orange just use bird netting and hail canons to scare
the feed birds off the cherries and apples. One orchard is 9 hectares in
size totally covered in netting. They say two or three good years will pay
for the nets with only about 5% loss of fruit rather than 50-60%.
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