Falcons for Grapes evolves into the Falcon Conservation Trust

摘要

A BIO-CONTROL for birds in vineyards 一 a natural predator that keeps birds away and reduces damage to less than two per cent without any need to net, patrol or employ shooters? Is this not a silver bullet? In 2005， native New Zealand falcons [falconovaeseelandiae) were established as nestlings in vineyards. The project, Falcons for Grapes, was a new research initiative with high hopes: to promote the survival of the species through a conservation strategy, and to see if the falcon ― a natural pursuer and catcher of birds in flight 一 could be a bio-control for pest birds in vineyards. The conservation drive has certainly been successful ana is ongoing, taicons have stayed and bred in vineyards, and numbers have increased.