How to Keep Crows Away in 2021 [Professional Tips & Tricks] - Bird B Gone, Inc.

How to Keep Crows Away: Smart Strategies for Smart Birds

When the summer sun comes out, properties come alive with outdoor activities, picnics, and seasonal growth. Unfortunately, pest birds are standing by to enjoy all of this right along with you. Peak summer months provide a constant supply of accessible food scraps, open trash bins, and ripening gardens, making commercial and residential spaces highly attractive targets for local flocks.

Increased avian activity throughout the summer leads to highly visible property issues, including:

• Accumulated bird droppings that ruin curb appeal, create structural health risks, and pose slipping hazards on wet exterior walkways.
• Accelerated structural damage caused by corrosive droppings on rooflines and mechanical equipment.
• Disruptive noise pollution during early morning hours.
• Debris, sticks, and straw scattered across structures from rapid nesting behavior.
• Ruined agricultural yields and gardens from heavy feeding.
• Customer complaints when outdoor dining areas or patios are continuously harassed by birds.

How to Keep Crows Away Permanently

Before installing any professional bird control products, preparing your site correctly using a two-step remediation framework is essential for long-term success.

Step 1: Clean and Sanitize the Site

The baseline phase of any successful bird control program is thoroughly cleaning the substrate. Crows are highly attracted to the residual scent of their own droppings and nesting materials; as long as pheromonal evidence of a past infestation remains, scouting flocks will continue to target the area. Utilize proper safety protocols or review our guide on safe methods for cleaning bird droppings before beginning application. If dealing with heavy accumulation, contracting a professional installer is strongly advised.

Step 2: Eliminate Accessible Food and Water

Crows are opportunistic omnivores, meaning nearly any organic material serves as a food source. While removing attractants may not entirely solve a structural roosting issue, it is a critical step to breaking the local bird cycle:

• Remove open outdoor bird feeders.
• Feed domestic pets strictly indoors.
• Keep compost bins completely covered and sealed.
• Utilize heavy-duty, closed trash bins that crows cannot easily open or tip.
• Bus outdoor restaurant patio tables immediately after guests leave.
• Post clear signage discouraging patrons from feeding local wildlife.
• Treat corporate lawns, turf, and agricultural perimeters for grubs—a primary crow food source.

Deploy Professional Crow Deterrents

Crows are incredibly savvy, working cooperatively as a flock to post elevated "scouts" on high lookout points while the rest of the murder feeds or scavenges. Installing heavy-duty professional crow deterrent products on these high perching locations permanently disrupts their security network.

Physical Ledge Barriers

To keep heavy crows off flat rooflines, parapet walls, commercial signage, and light fixtures, look to physical barriers that eliminate their landing zones:

• Stainless Steel or Plastic Bird Spikes: Heavy-duty anti-perching spikes prevent large birds from gaining a secure physical foothold on horizontal ledges without causing them any harm.
• Bird Jolt Flat Track: A low-profile, flexible, electrified track system that mounts directly to complex architectural lines. It delivers a harmless, memorable static shock, conditioning smart corvids to permanently avoid the building line.
• Bird Spiders and Repeller 360: Wind-driven, spinning visual and physical units designed to sweep across flat surfaces like AC blocks, docks, and roofs, keeping scouts from landing.
• Heavy-Duty Structural Bird Netting: The ultimate exclusion option to completely block crows from entering open warehouse bays, storage areas, or nested structural eaves.

Multi-Sensory and Audible Scare Tactics

Because crows are constantly alert to structural threats, humane sensory harassment tactics are highly effective for immediate visual and audio disruption:

• SpectrumV Holographic Bird Gel Dishes: An easy-to-install, low-profile optical gel that reflects UV light frequencies to mimic active fire to an approaching bird while emitting a sensory grape scent.
• Holographic Flash Tape and Reflect-A-Bird: Visual deterrents that catch sunlight and utilize continuous wind movement to disorient birds mid