{"id":179875,"date":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179875\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:29:07","slug":"terre-haute-tests-lasers-to-reduce-downtown-crow-population-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179875\/","title":{"rendered":"Terre Haute tests lasers to reduce downtown crow population | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) \u2014 A pilot program will soon be introduced in Terre Haute to reduce the number of crows visiting the downtown area during winter.<\/p>\n<p>The Vigo County Capital Improvement Board funded a nearly $4,000 study on crows late last year. The Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce collaborated with local businesses and Wild Goose Chase, a company specializing in crow management.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the company&#8217;s recommendations, the board will purchase an automated laser system for about $18,000. The system aims to scare off crows without harming them.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Goose Chase will monitor the laser&#8217;s effectiveness and suggest other methods for areas where the laser may not work as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) \u2014 A pilot program will soon be introduced in Terre Haute to reduce the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3729,3,79,452,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-179875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-local","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}