During the nesting flavour (April-July) crows tin flaming perish aggressive, especially when they perceive a threat to their brood. Sometimes crows volition fifty-fifty assail humans. Crows attacking students became such a big occupation at Langara College inwards Vancouver that GIS instructors Jim O’Leary together with Rick Davidson decided to practise an interactive map that enables people to study locations where crows cause got attacked.
The CrowTrax map allows anyone to add together a place where they cause got been attacked yesteryear a crow. So far the map has had thousands of locations added to the map. And non only inwards Vancouver. Crowtrax has been inwards functioning for iii years now. You tin flaming thought the locations added to the map inwards previous years yesteryear selecting a twelvemonth from the map menu.
This isn't the showtime fourth dimension that has had to study on aggressive birds. For over vi years the University of Waterloo's GooseWatch map has tracked the locations of all known nesting geese on the university's campus. The map too allows you lot to thought the locations where geese cause got been known to nest inwards previous years.
The heart together with someone 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 you lot to define how scared of geese you lot are - which it thence takes into consideration when suggesting a prophylactic road or thence the campus.
