In Nigeria, this same pestdestroyed about 45,000 hectares of rice farm under the Bakalori Irrigation scheme (located in Sokoto State Nigeria)in 2005 prompting a lot of money to be spent on procuring avicides for their control (Ezeonu 2009). Transmission(wikipedia.org/wiki/transmission_Site), fouling of the environment with birds dropping plus the attendant insectinfestation and the damage of vehicles and glass structures from bird strikes, inter alia, are other nuisance factorsof birds to man. Several devices have been used to control the menace of birds both at the airports and farms butthe use of electronic scarecrows is a relatively new invention