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One trained falcon making 60 attack sorties a day can protect 100,000 solar panels from vengeful crows.
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This headline and xitt smelled to me. Searching in Japanese, I find one instance of it being used at a installation. https://project.nikkeibp.co.jp/ms/atcl/feature/15/389489/041000017/?ST=msb&P=5 I'm not immediately seeing anything else similar.
Edit: clarity.
Yeah, I’m wondering about the truthfulness of this story also. Here in Southern California we have solar arrays and crows. They seem to coexist quite peacefully,
I would also be amazed if a crow could lift a big enough rock to damage a panel. I have a pile of panels in use; they're pretty damn tough to break that glass. Only time I've seen one broken was the wind tore it off it's mount and smashed it into the top of a fence post. I measure the production afterwards and it was still 90% despite the glass being crazed across the entire surface.
"there was a high possibility of actual damage occurring, such as the cover glass being broken by falling rocks or the panel surface being soiled with droppings" from the Japanese article via google translate.
Our crows here are larger than the US ("grackles" in Texas may be close, but I think they're still smaller), but I still wonder if they could drop rocks heavy enough (or repeatedly enough) to do anything.