Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) troop feeding in field of rice, with scarecrow. The scarecrow doesn't work for more than a day or two. Bossou, Republic of Guinea

Bruno D'Amicis / Dead eurasian cranes (Grus grus) juvenile hanging as scarecrow in cultivated fields on shores. Shesher lake, Fogera Plains. Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve

Bruno D'Amicis / Dead Eurasian cranes (Grus grus) juvenile hanging as scarecrow in cultivated fields on shores. Shesher lake, Fogera Plains. Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve, Ethiopia.

TJ Rich / Scarecrow in tea plantation, The Knuckles range, Sri Lanka.

TJ Rich / Scarecrow in tea plantation, The Knuckles range, Sri Lanka.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Möllers / Scarecrow and cabbages growing in a private alottment in the village of Nova Sedlica, Slovakia, September 2011

Ernie Janes / Scarecrow in vegetable garden, UK, July 2011

Florian Möllers / Scarecrow and nets defending carp fishponds from birds including Great Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis). Molln, Northern Germany, August 2009.

Ernie Janes / Scarecrow in vegetable garden at village Garden Allotments, Norfolk, UK

Larry Michael / Scarecrow in vegetable patch in Old World State Historic Park, Wisconsin, USA 1996

Larry Michael / Scarecrow in cottage garden in Historic Park, Eagle, Wisconsin, USA

Adam White / Scarecrow in ploughed field, Norfolk, UK, October 1998