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In this article the author discusses that electricity grids are facing an all-out avian bombardment. Topics include the first major assault occurred in California in 1923, along transmission lines between the Big Creek hydroelectric plant and the city of Los Angeles, California, and the finding that this was caused by bird faeces which are electrically conductive.

The article presents a reprint of a news story that was published in the previous issue of the periodical "Pasco-Kennewick-Richland Tri-City Herald." Police officers in Sacramento, California decided to place fake owls in the trees by the police building to drive away starlings. Bird droppings were fouling the vehicles that were parked underneath the trees. A work crew placed the owls in the wrong trees.