It'll work right up until a second goose joins the fun.

I’ll save your day :) In fact, these _are_ smart geese created by centuries of interaction with humans. Why do you think they prefer human-created environments given a choice?

Your day will brighten up again: it is both the geese _and_ the solution that are smart. From the article:

> Geese figure out each system's weakness and eventually have their way [...] To outsmart geese...

To quote Harry Hill: “Remember, karate chop to the neck - if the geese ever invade again.”

Rivalry suspected.

I too found this highly amusing

Geese eat grass which is not very nutritious. Quantity has its qualities but it makes a lot of poop.

That's already the premise of gated communities, now that gates can be remotely controlled.

For neighborhoods that don't like fences, calling the cops on "too poor looking to be from here" in the next best move, which to your point could be automated from camera subject detection.

Pretty sure I saw them just hosing down the sidewalks - and all the homeless people and their possessions - in Market Street in SF. No AI needed.

I worked at a place where there was a giant grass patch surrounded by 3 buildings. A guy came in once per week flying his hawks around which make an excellent deterrent.

That said, I need a pigeon deterrent for my patio.

duckdns.org is a dynamic DNS service used for servers that don't have a static IP. That is, this is being hosted out of someones house, and I wouldn't expect it to able to handle HN's load.

any AI deterrent system seems worthwhile though. how many more useless chatbots does the world really need. it's like candycrush clones.

Nah. If the free-fire authorized guards are kept (mostly) human, it's a jobs program and a political wedge among the hoi polloi.

*utopia. fixed that for you

Habitat is not the problem for many avian pests, that's the thing. Doves, geese, ducks - they all don't require much else than a food and a water source to thrive, and that is the problem.

With no predators in place to eat them - cats don't hunt anything larger than a dove and they prefer mice and smaller rats anyway, stray dogs get killed off, wolves are extinct and birds of prey don't like urban areas - there is no upper external boundary to control their population.

Meanwhile, food is plenty. Unlike rats and mice, people (particularly the elderly) willingly attract the birds, when they go and walk through a park they deposit bread, grains, dairy, whatever they have on hand. I mean, I get it, watching a flock of birds is among the most relaxing experiences in green-devoid urban areas there is. But from a higher up POV, it's actually endangering these rare green spots (all that bird poo can literally lead to a stagnant body of water "flipping" from oxygen starvation from all the decomposing poo), and people don't get it. On top of that people are just careless, they throw their trash wherever they want (and all kinds of pests can pick them up), authorities don't take care about installing bird/raccoon/bear proof bins... it's an utter madness.

And just shooting up larger gathering places isn't an answer either. The locals may protest (either due to misguided love for the birds or due to the noise), it may not be legal to shoot them up in the first place, you can't poison them off either because any kind of poison would contaminate the water, and in doubt you'll just have a bigger population the next year.

When migratory birds no longer migrate and thrive in one location, problems happen. https://www.historylink.org/File/9351

People really seem to like building goose habitats, i.e. small bodies of water surrounded by short grass. Many of them get upset when geese show up to those habitats though.