The Quelea's was becoming a bit of a problem.
The objective was to eliminate the birds because farmers next to sondela would have loosed allot of money and crops.
Why we needed to do it?
Because they where nesting and it was only a matter of time before they would have left and eat all the farmers crops.
What we needed to do.
The farmers followed the birds and saw they lived here on Sondela.
So the farmers made an arrangement with Sondela to spray the birds then they planned the whole operation first they contact the guys that do the spraying.
Then they made an arrangement with the farmers to bring workers to help
then every 10m they put a fa col with diesel in it surrounding the area where the quelea's where nesting then we walked into the area and we made some noise to chase away other birds that were non target animals then they lit ed up the fa Col's then we waited for the airplane to come and spray the birds he did 2 rounds then after that we went back home.
The following morning we wake up early to go and pick up the dead birds before any non target animals got there, there was two owls the one was dead and the other one was injured and there where one snake that is at the wildlife centre.
The whole operation was a success only three non targeted animals where injured it was a very interesting operation I learned allot about the birds and there habitat and why they where a problem I was sad but it was for a good cause
When this happened.
It was on the first of February 2010.It was D-Day for the Quelea's.
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