Birds Spikes

Free your house and garden from birds! Clear info which bird control products you need for your house, garden, property or boat.

Why you need bird control products

As soon as there is an avian flu outbreak, it’s obvious you need bird control devices so no bird will contaminate you nor your children.

You also remember U.S. Airways flight 1549, which was forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River after a flock of geese flew into its engines.

Regardless of avian flu outbreaks or flight engines, in your daily life there are more reasons for getting rid of birds:

• keeping your house, structures or statues clean and sanitary by safely discouraging birds from landing, pooping and nesting
   
• selectively keeping birds from eating your harvest or seedlings. Selectively because birds do destroy many worms and insects that infest your orchards and gardens.

Not all birds are considered as pests, but most commonly bird removal will be necessary when pigeons, geese, woodpeckers, blackbirds, starlings, sparrows, seagulls, or crows become more of a pest than a joy:

• bird droppings can discolor paint, stain wood, erode meta and even crumble concrete and expensive stonework
   
• bird droppings are an ideal breading ground for bacteria, fungi and parasites
   
• birds (like when you have chickens in your garden) are known to carry fleas, mites and ticks that can carry diseases to humans.

No need to get alarmed: birds and humans have been living together for centuries, so each person has to evaluate for himself when birds become pests.

List of bird control products

• scare crows are the oldest bird control products in the book and are a fun thing to make with your kids in your garden
   
• other bird scare products that discourage birds from landing on trees, overhangs, gazebos, patios, eaves, pool areas, and other areas are:
   
• flash tape
   
• iridescent reflective foil
   
• aluminum folio strips hanging on wires blowing in the wind
   
• inflatable balloons imprinted with lifelike reflective predator eyes and markings. Some of these bird repellers have iridescent foil eyes to scare away birds by day and glow-in-the-dark backsides to keep them away at night.
   
• bird slopes form another simple, but effective bird control measure. Bird slopes are slippery PVC panels that are placed on ledges, eaves or beams in order for the birds to sit, nest and roost.
  Bird slopes have steep angles that don’t allow birds to get a grip. The birds will slide off the slopes and fly away.
  Bird slope panels come in a variety of colors to match your structure or use UV stabilized polycarbonate bird slopes that can be painted.
  They can be easily glued to any surface or screwed to wood.
   
• bird control netting has been used for ages as well. It’s a theoretically simple and highly effective bird control solution. Bird netting is ideal for courtyards, patio covers, and rooftops.
  Installing can be the difficult factor yet once installed, pigeon netting presents an impenetrable barrier against these pest birds.
  Same goes for keeping birds out of your fruit trees, crops, or vineyard.
  For buildings and other structures, try heavy-duty bird netting.
   
• bird gel: a fast and economical bird control solution. This non-toxic, sticky chemical leaves a surface that’s tacky and uncomfortable to most birds. The gel skins but never sets hard, providing an unstable surface for the birds to land on.
  Birds hate it, yet it’s safe for both birds and people.
   
• rotating solar powered bird repeller: This bird repellent turns once every 2 seconds to gently sweep birds away.
  Ideal for pigeons, seagulls and larger birds to be used on roofs, signs, billboards, parapet walls or any flat surface, including outdoor eating areas.
• ultrasonic and sonic bird repellers: the latter is not recommended in housing areas as the noise they make is as irritating for humans as it is for birds.
• electric-track bird repellers. Ideal for use on ledges, rooftops, and flat or curved surfaces like signs. These bird repellers give the bird an harmless but irritating mild electric shock to:
   
• discourage the bird from landing and
   
• teach the bird that landing at that spot is too painful to do it again.
   
• our preferred "weapon" against bird pests are bird spikes. They are ideal for keeping pest birds from landing on rooftops, awnings, gutters and girders. Make sure to install a sufficient amount of bird spikes to cover the entire ledge to keep birds from sneaking around them. Close off corners and all open sides of a ledge.
  You have 2 different types of bird spikes:
   
• made of rigid U.V.-resistant unbreakable polycarbonate
   
• flexible stainless steel bird spikes.

  Bird spikes come in a variety of widths and colors, are easy to install and don’t harm birds.  

Bird Control Products Summarized

Keep your property free from birds by using one or more of the bird control products listed:

• bird scare products
   
• bird slopes
   
• bird netting
   
• bird gel
   
• bird repellers:
   
• electric
   
• sonic
   
• ultrasonic
   
• rotating
   
• bird spikes

Always choose bird control products that suit your budget and only when you feel the birds are becoming a pest.

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