{"id":8231,"date":"2003-04-07T19:55:36","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T00:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/04\/07\/robot-bird-of-prey\/"},"modified":"2003-04-07T19:55:36","modified_gmt":"2003-04-08T00:55:36","slug":"robot-bird-of-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/04\/robot-bird-of-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot bird of prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Two inventors have developed a flying robotic bird of prey designed to scare off pigeons and seagulls by swooping in on their territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Bob McIntyre, 59, and Allan Davie, 60, developed the fibreglass peregrine falcon, which can move its head and call like a real bird, to work alongside an earlier, non-flying model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The first bird, Robop, was launched last year and the inventors hope its sibling will work alongside it to scare more birds away from farmland and fish ponds.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_768425.html?menu=news.latestheadlines\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">One of those filthy robot birds dropped a pile of nut and bolts  and what appeared to be white silicon RTV on my car.  And just what do you feed these robot birds,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newport.com\/store\/xq\/ASP\/lone.Vibration+Control\/ltwo.Breadboards+and+Grid+Platforms\/lthree.SG+Series%3Cbr%3EScientific+Grade+Breadboards\/lfour.\/id.2960\/lang.1\/qx\/product.htm\">Breadboard<\/a> crumbs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two inventors have developed a flying robotic bird of prey designed to scare off pigeons and seagulls by swooping in on their territory. Bob McIntyre, 59, and Allan Davie, 60,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}