Word: leeuwarden
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...gulls. It was an imaginative effort, but it did not work. Dutch herring gulls apparently speak a dialect all their own and are not alarmed by the screams of their American cousins. When Dr. Hardenberg recorded distressed Dutch gulls and a Jeep carrying his loudspeaker patrolled the runway of Leeuwarden military air base, the gulls merely flew up ahead of the noise in temporary terror and then landed behind it. Dr. Hardenberg's riposte was to line the runway with 23 loudspeakers, which sounded off with ghastly screams that kept the gulls 500 ft. away...
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