{
  "id": "fake-owl-decoy",
  "sku": "fake-owl-decoy",
  "title": "Fake Owl Decoy | Bird Scarecrow | Plastic Owl Statues",
  "slug": "fake-owl-decoy",
  "price": 79,
  "currency": "NZD",
  "availability": "in_stock",
  "category": "bird-control",
  "category_label": "Bird Control",
  "tags": [
    "deterrent",
    "decoy",
    "garden"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "Natural owl markings with reflective eyes"
  ],
  "materials": [
    "Moulded plastic with fade resistant, water resistant paint"
  ],
  "dimensions": "Free standing, with a spring mounted head",
  "weight": null,
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  "description_short": "A weatherproof plastic owl with a spring mounted head that turns in the wind. It buys you time and attention. Move it, or the birds will simply file it under furniture.",
  "description": "Why most plastic owls fail\n\nThey get put on a post and left there. Within two or three weeks the birds have watched it not move, not hunt and not react, and it has become an ornament. Some of them will sit on it, which is the clearest possible feedback.\n\nEverything below is about avoiding that.\n\nMove it weekly\n\nThis is the whole trick and it takes about a minute. A new position each week keeps the object novel, and novelty is the only thing a decoy has.\n\nPut it where the wind reaches\n\nThe head is spring mounted so it turns in a breeze, and that movement is what separates it from a garden gnome. A sheltered corner defeats it. A post, a roof edge, a fence corner or the end of a jetty all work.\n\nUse it for a season, not a year\n\nBring it out when the problem starts and put it away when the fruit is picked or the birds move on. A decoy that is always present is teaching them something all year.\n\nWhat it is good at\n\nOpen spaces and mild problems. A vegetable garden, a deck, a jetty, a small orchard, a barn. Somewhere birds are passing through and deciding whether to stop, rather than somewhere they have lived for three years.\n\nIt is also good in combination. An owl plus a few reflective discs plus some tape gives a bird three different things to be uncertain about, and that lasts longer than any one of them.\n\nWhat it is not good at\n\nAn established roost. Pigeons that have used a parapet for years will not be moved by a plastic owl, and nor will gulls, who are bold and habituate fast. Those need a barrier.\n\nIt does nothing at all to possums or rats. No decoy does.\n\nKeeping it looking like an owl\n\nWash the dust off a couple of times a year, check the head still turns freely, and secure it somewhere exposed so it does not end up in the neighbour's garden.",
  "llm_summary": "Fake Owl Decoy | Bird Scarecrow | Plastic Owl Statues sold by Discount Warehouse in New Zealand for NZ$79. A weatherproof plastic owl with a spring mounted head that turns in the wind. It buys you time and attention. Move it, or the birds will simply file it under furniture. We dispatch within 2 working days. Delivery then takes up to 7 working days by tracked courier. Delivery is free across New Zealand on orders of NZ$100 or more, and NZ$25 including GST below that. Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 rights apply.",
  "returnable": true,
  "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 consumer guarantees for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.",
  "shipping_profile": "standard",
  "warranty": null,
  "brand": "Discount Warehouse",
  "gtin": null,
  "mpn": null,
  "condition": "new",
  "url": "https://discountwarehouse.co.nz/fake-owl-decoy/",
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  "updated_at": "2026-10-29"
}