How to Keep Birds Away From Your Warehouse

Warehouses with their wide open doors often attract pest birds in spring. The high rafters provide warm shelter, protection from predators, and abundant nesting nooks and crannies for birds to nest in. 

Some warehouses resort to washing ceilings with high-pressure cleaners only to discover that birds have come back. Other unsuccessful methods to keep birds away included fake snakes, owl decoys and pellet guns.

What to Look for in Warehouses

Bird pests like pigeons, crows and gulls can create costly problems for warehouse managers. Floor crew operating forklifts and other machinery can be distracted or startled by birds. Bird nests, feathers and other debris make ideal kindling for electrical fires (birds like the warmth of light fixtures and transformers). Bird droppings can cause dangerous slip-and-fall accidents and damage/deface floor inventory, obscuring labeling codes and shipping information. Food products can be contaminated by bird droppings, which can carry any of 60 known diseases.

Best Practices to Stop Birds in Warehouses

Fortunately the bird control experts at Bird-B-Gone have a number of effective and humane bird deterrents that will keep birds away from your warehouse.

1) Heavy-Duty Bird Netting Blocks Out Bird Pests

Designed to physically block out pest birds, Bird-B-Gone Bird Net 2000 Heavy-Duty Bird Netting is a proven bird control deterrent to keep birds away from warehouses. This tough netting comes in several mesh sizes--including 2-inch, 11/8-inch, and 3/4-inch--to exclude pigeons, sparrows, gulls, starlings, crows and other troublesome birds. Fabricated from a UV-stabilized mesh to endure harsh weather extremes, Bird Net 2000 comes with a 10-year guarantee. Its ISO 1806 protocol mesh tested, flame resistant, rot-proof and waterproof.

Bird Netting is the best solution to prevent birds from nesting in loading dock canopies to prevent birds from ruining packaged products. Netting also prevents birds from nesting in the interior of the warehouse such as the ceiling and rafters. Netting not only protects valuable products from hazardous bird droppings but prevents employees from slipping and falling on bird droppings. 

2) Vinyl Strip Doors Provide a Bird Barrier

Ideal for keeping bird pests out of specific warehouse areas, Bird-B-Gone Vinyl Strip Doors come in standard sizes or custom cuts in a variety of widths and lengths. Standard sizes made with standard flat strips start at 3' x 7' (door width x height), go all the way to 12' x 12' and feature up to 66 percent overlap. Custom sizes include 8" x 80", 12" x 120" and 16" x 160" and feature full overlapping flat strips. The vinyl panels come with all the hardware you need to hang them. The stripped panels separate easily to permit crew, pallet loaders and forklifts to pass through them.

3) Sonic Bird Deterrents Scare Birds

If pest birds believe your warehouse is occupied by their natural predators, they will move on to safer environs for roosting and nesting. Bird-B-Gone's Solar Bird Chase Super Sonic broadcasts pre-recorded distress and predator calls that birds will recognize as danger. The calls last for two minutes and are repeated every 10 minutes. The Solar Bird Chase Super Sonic comes with a built-in speaker to cover an acre-sized warehouse. It can be mounted just outside your warehouse entrance or inside under a skylight. Its constructed of UV-protected materials, making it both sun- and weather-resistant. It even works on cloudy days. And it comes with a volume control to adjust the sonic output at the correct level to keep birds away.

Request Professional Help

Bird-B-Gone is the worlds largest manufacturer and distributor of bird control products, providing effective and humane solutions to keep birds away from your property. The company provides advice, training and installation services for those who need help with these and other bird control measures. 

With a vast network of Authorized Installers of Bird B Gone products, our team is equipped to locate a bird control professional near you.