Facility Bird Control: 5 Key Steps to a Bird-Free Building
1.) Landscape Alterations
Your first line of defense is the facility’s outdoor property – make sure yours isn’t a bird paradise. Neatly cut grass, large open spaces, peaceful ponds, and easily accessible building surfaces are an open invitation to pest birds from miles around. Instead, plant trees and bushes generously, and allow grass to grow thick around pond edges. When birds sense that predators may be hiding nearby, the area will have less bird-appeal. For extra protection, treat lawns and foliage with a bird taste aversion such as Bird Stop.
2.) Physical Barriers
Next, physically prevent birds from accessing the building. Install Bird Netting in areas where birds may be tempted to seek shelter – large openings, remote corners, and small sheltered spaces. Affix Bird Spikes to rooftop ledges, edges, beams, AC units, chimneys, and other surfaces where birds may perch.
3.) Property Maintenance & Sanitation
A little upkeep goes a long way. Make sure windows are sealed properly and doorways are closed when not in use. Check regularly for cracks in roofing – pest pigeon droppings and a leaky roof were the alleged source of one of the largest food recalls in FDA history (2007 Peanut Butter Recall). A clean facility, inside and out, is much less likely to attract pests of all kinds. Follow strict waste management guidelines and make sure your drainage system is efficient and working properly. Blocked drains, stagnant water and overflowing trash bins are dream come true for bacteria, mold, insects, rodents, pest birds and other pest animals.
4.) Overload the Senses
Birds survive primarily on their audio-visual senses. That, and good instincts. When attempting to keep pest birds away from a large property, make the whole area seem uninhabitable by using their natural fear of predators against them. Visual scares and predator decoys can be easily installed on lawns, in trees, in ponds and near doorways to repel pest birds. Audio deterrents are a great way to reach pest birds across several acres, warning them to STAY AWAY. Sonic devices use bird distress calls and predator cries to alert pest birds within range that the area is not safe, while ultrasonic repellers use high-frequency (silent-to-humans) sound waves that irritate and disorient birds nearby.
5.) Synergize
For the highest probability of success, use all of these tactics together. Get on the fast-track to a bird-free facility by making your property less physically hospitable to pest birds WHILE simultaneously unleashing a multi-sensory attack on incoming birds.
PRESS RELEASE: Pesticides are OUT. ‘Green’ Pest Control is IN.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bird-X changes the pest control industry with ‘green’, humane, eco-friendly solutions.
CHICAGO, IL—Bird-X, Inc., a leader in producing humane pest and bird repellent products since 1964, is raising the bar even higher for the pest control industry, offering ‘green’ solutions for every pest and bird problem. Research shows that, in the long-term, teaching pests to stay away is more effective than killing pests. Plus, avoiding dangerous chemical pesticides and cruel traps is much better for the reputation of the user. It looks like ‘Kill-Trap-Poison’ is no longer the only industry philosophy.
The Risks of Using Pesticides and Traps:
- Exposure to chemical pesticides can result in severe illness and even death
- Chemical pesticides are especially risky when used around children and pets
- Chemical pesticides can compromise the quality/safety of items stored on the premises
- Chemical pesticides pose risks to wildlife and can cause ecological damages
- Pests become resistant to chemical pesticides over time, requiring increased usage
- Killing pests can actually result in population growth (having more food available per pest attracts pests from other areas and increases breeding rates)
- Poisoned pests often crawl into small spaces to die, leaving awful smells in unreachable areas
- Traps leave animal carcasses—or worse, injured and dying animals—on property
- Allegations of poisonings or animal cruelty are a public relations nightmare
- Poisons and traps do nothing to keep pests away…it’s a never-ending battle
For the past few decades, the public has been demanding safer products and ‘green’ alternatives in EVERY industry. Bird-X responded by developing pest and bird control solutions that are humane, eco-friendly and extremely effective. These products protect the users’ property while protecting the environment and its inhabitants as well.
‘Green’ Bird Control
Bird-X offers solutions for every bird problem, every area, and every budget. Exclusion bird netting is designed to protect large areas like warehouse ceilings, rafters, vineyards, and bridges. Bird spikes are ideal for protecting surfaces like rooftops, ledges, and beams. Bird Proof Gel is an almost invisible solution, ideal for high-profile surfaces like window sills, signs, or statues.
Bird-X also offers bird control products that attack the senses, using the birds’ instinctual fear of predators to teach them to stay away for good. Visual scares like 3-D predator replicas are affordable options for large open areas. The Bird Blazer is the world’s first indoor laser bird repellent device. Plus, Bird-X carries an extensive line of sonic (audible) devices that use bird distress calls and predator sounds to deter birds, as well as ultrasonic (silent to humans) devices that emit frequencies to keep pest birds away.
‘Green’ Animal Control
Nature’s Defense All-Purpose Animal Repellent is a wonderful, 100% organic, non-toxic, ‘green’ product that is perfect for homeowners and facility managers. Scientifically tested and proven effective, Nature’s Defense repellent granules create an irritant scent barrier to keep pest animals away from property (deters deer, elk, rabbits, squirrels, mice, rats, moles, chipmunks, gophers, beavers, possums, etc.).
For more information about Bird-X and other ‘green’ bird and pest control solutions, visit www.bird-x.com.
About Bird-X, Inc.
Bird-X is the leader in producing humane pest and bird repellent products, since 1964. We offer the most comprehensive line of bird control products that are eco-friendly, environmentally-safe, non-toxic, and non-harmful. Our bird deterrents range from state-of-the-art laser technology to ultrasonic/sonic bird control, goose and pigeon repellents, bird spikes, bird netting, animal sound repellers, and visual scare repellers.
For more information on our company or to order this product please visit www.bird-x.com or call Bird-X at (800) 662-5021.
Contact:
Chrissy Hansen, Media Correspondent
Bird-X, Inc.
Phone: 312.226.2473
Fax: 312.2262480
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It’s Nesting Season for Canada Geese
Right now, resident Canada geese are settling in for their annual nesting season. They’ve selected their mates, built their nests, and are ready to lay some eggs…hopefully not on your property. Here’s the problem: once geese have ‘moved in’, it’s almost impossible to get them to leave. Imagine if someone came to your house in the middle of the night and tried to convince you to move out, leaving behind all of your comfort, security, resources…AND your children! Would that go over very well? Probably not. That’s pretty much how the geese feel when we try to get them to leave our property during their nesting season.
According to Dr. Phil “Dr. Goose” Whitford’s Calendar of the Goose, the 8—10 week period that follows is molting season (from June to August), when Canada geese gather on and around lakes and ponds to shed their old feathers, and re-grow new ones. Because they are unable to fly during this time, they can only be moved to areas they can reach on foot. New families and non-breeding geese alike move to these molting sites, doing serious damage to the landscape of the areas that they are temporarily inhabiting.
Not-So-Fun Fact: Each Canada goose defecates about 28 times per day!
Bird-X recommends goose-proofing your property before nesting season so that geese learn to take up residence elsewhere. If geese have already nested on your property this year, be prepared to move them in late May—after their eggs have hatched and when molting season is about to begin. Try combining the Bird-X GooseBuster® with some visual scare tactics. The GooseBuster is a sonic speaker system that creates an audio attack using recordings of actual Canada geese alarm, alert and distress calls. Developed using scientific research and field study, the GooseBuster is the most comprehensive goose repeller in the world.
Dr. Goose has a PhD in biological sciences, specializing in animal behavior. He also has BS and MS degrees in wildlife management. The findings from his extensive studies of the Canada goose have been presented in over 100 publications.
Written by Chrissy Hansen—Media Correspondent for Bird-X, Inc.
PRESS RELEASE: BirdXPeller Remote Controlled Drone
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BirdXPeller Remote Controlled Drone takes flight.
Bird-X introduces remote controlled model aircraft as advanced bird control method.
CHICAGO, IL, March 4, 2011—Bird-X, Inc., a leader in producing humane pest and bird repellent products since 1964, introduces the BirdXPeller Remote Controlled Drone. This NEW PATENTED technology keeps pest bird intruders away from golf courses, agricultural property and vineyards—even challenging environments such as airports. The BirdXPeller ‘drone’ system is a remote-controlled model aircraft that swoops down to scare and chase away pest birds, emitting natural sounds of hawk cries and bird distress calls as it buzzes the target pests in threatening maneuvers.
The BirdXPeller Remote Controlled Drone has been proven highly effective in scaring birds off—leaving them very reluctant to return to areas where they have been subjected to such terrifying attacks. Studies have shown that the best way to control birds humanely is to leverage their instinctive fears and threat-avoidance for behavior modification.
The Remote Controlled Drone uses the expertise of Dan Metz, model aircraft flyer, as well as Dr. Phil ‘Dr. Goose’ Whitford, a biologist with a lifelong interest in Canada geese—to create an aerial attack that combines the recorded alarm and alert calls from wild Canada geese and other specific species such as seagulls, blackbirds and starlings.
Recently, Dan Metz used the drone to rid the La Quinta Civic Center in California of unwanted ducks. The campus park was becoming infested with ducks, and the creatures were leaving messy droppings on walkways and feathers on the grass—they were even digging up the turf with their beaks. The BirdXPeller Remote Controlled Drone provided a safe, natural way to quickly reduce the number of ducks on the property.
View a video of the BirdXPeller Remote Controlled Drone in action at the busy regional Nashville airport: http://vimeo.com/14365129. This exciting new technology will provide Airport Wildlife Control with a new weapon for protecting aircraft from pest bird incursions and the severe risk of actual bird strikes.
For more information about Bird-X and other bird and pest control solutions, visit www.bird-x.com.
About Bird-X, Inc.
Bird-X is the leader in producing humane pest and bird repellent products, since 1964. We offer the most comprehensive line of bird control products that are eco-friendly, environmentally-safe, non-toxic, and non-harmful. Our bird deterrents range from state-of-the-art laser technology to ultrasonic/sonic bird control, goose and pigeon repellents, bird spikes, bird netting, animal sound repellers, and visual scare repellers.
For more information on our company or to order this product please visit www.bird-x.com or call Bird-X at (800) 662-5021.
Contact:
Chrissy Hansen, Media Correspondent
Bird-X, Inc.
Phone: 312.226.2473
Fax: 312.2262480
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Birds In The News
Bird problems appear in the news more often than we might realize. In fact, a few of the more high-profile news stories in the past few years have been bird-related:
In 2007, more than 500 people were reported sick, and at least eight died due to salmonella contamination in over 400 popular peanut butter products. It may have been the largest food recall in FDA history. Investigators determined that a leaky roof was to blame for the sanitation breach, and that—as birds are known to carry a variety of infectious diseases, including salmonella—it was highly likely that pest pigeons were the vector.
In 2007, the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed due to weak and rusted steel beams. After closer inspection, it was discovered that the structure’s framework was covered with corrosive pigeon droppings. When bird droppings are not quickly washed away, they dry out and turn to salt and ammonia; when this later comes into contact with rainwater, small electrochemical reactions take place that speed up the rusting process.
Bird strikes cost the airline industry alone around $800 million each year. Who can forget the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ that occurred in January of 2009? Shortly after taking off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, Flight 1549 was struck by a flock of Canadian geese, losing thrust in both engines and forcing pilot, Captain Sullenberger, to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River. Fortunately, all 155 passengers survived.
Pest birds can be a nuisance and an inconvenience—they can also cause problems that put human beings in serious danger. It’s important to bird-proof your home and/or your business to avoid these issues. Visit www.bird-x.com to find bird and pest control products that are safe, green, eco-friendly, non-toxic, and non-harmful. Bird-X has solutions for every problem and every budget.
Written by Chrissy Hansen—Media Correspondent for Bird-X, Inc.
Bird-X Transonic Pro is perfect for repelling pesky critters
A 5/5 star product review
This device is excellent to ward off raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, mice etc. It is a humane way of getting rid of unwanted pests and proved to be very effective. I have a whole string of the units spread out in my attic and operate them for periods of two or three days and then turn them off for a week or so. The result is no pests.
By Guillaume from New York
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