Pest on crop
Bird Damage on sea buckthorn
Multiple species
Robins, catbirds, mockingbirds, starlings, cedar waxwings and other songbirds can strip ripening berry and fruit crops in days. Crows and blackbirds also damage fresh sweet corn ears in milk stage. The single biggest yield-loss factor in unprotected home plantings.
- Pest
- Bird Damage
- Scientific name
- Multiple species
- Crop
- Sea Buckthorn
- Total hosts
- 25
Bird Damage on sea buckthorn
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Signs on sea buckthorn
- ▸ Berries pecked or removed from clusters
- ▸ Damaged fruit on the ground
- ▸ Increased bird activity around ripening crops
IPM controls
- ✓ Bird netting (1/2 to 3/4 inch mesh) over plants from color-break to harvest
- ✓ Floating row cover on small plantings
- ✓ Reflective tape and visual scare devices (rotate to maintain effectiveness)
- ✓ Harvest at first ripeness (do not let berries hang)
- ✓ Sacrificial planting of mulberry as a decoy crop
Other crops affected by bird damage
Highbush Blueberry Lowbush Blueberry Rabbiteye Blueberry Red Raspberry Black Raspberry Yellow Raspberry Blackberry June-Bearing Strawberry Everbearing Strawberry Red Currant Black Currant White Currant Gooseberry Elderberry Aronia (Black Chokeberry) Honeyberry (Haskap) Lingonberry Goji Berry Cranberry Saskatoon (Serviceberry) Sweet Cherry Sour Cherry Fig Sweet Corn
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