When Birds Attack

During the nesting flavour (April-July) crows tin teach aggressive, specially when they perceive a threat to their brood. Sometimes crows volition fifty-fifty assault humans. Crows attacking students became such a big work at Langara College inward Vancouver that GIS instructors Jim O’Leary in addition to Rick Davidson decided to practice an interactive map that enables people to study locations where crows stimulate got attacked.

The CrowTrax map allows anyone to add together a place where they stimulate got been attacked past times a crow. So far the map has had thousands of locations added to the map. And non only inward Vancouver. Crowtrax has been inward functioning for 3 years now. You tin sentiment the locations added to the map inward previous years past times selecting a yr from the map menu.


This isn't the showtime fourth dimension that has had to study on aggressive birds. For over 6 years the University of Waterloo's GooseWatch map has tracked the locations of all known nesting geese on the university's campus. The map besides allows y'all to sentiment the locations where geese stimulate got been known to nest inward previous years.

The middle of the Goose Watch interactive map is the Brooding Goose Problem routing engine which helps students avoid the brooding (and sometimes aggressive) geese. The search engine fifty-fifty allows y'all to define how scared of geese y'all are - which it thus takes into consideration when suggesting a security road some the campus.