How to Reduce Bird Nuisance in Your City

The city is a place where diverse groups congregate to live and work, including city-dwelling birds. While birds have a place in the urban environment and deserve to be treated humanely, they can cause quite a bit of trouble for both people and structures. It is always best to be proactive in dealing with nuisance animals and work to stop problems before they start. Fortunately, there are products available that you can purchase and install to effectively address the challenges caused by city-dwelling birds in a safe, cost-effective, and humane manner.

Solar Panel Bird Deterrents

If your city is energy-conscious and utilizes solar panels, you will likely find that the area underneath them is a prime location for nesting birds. While the birds and eggs enjoy the warmth from the warming solar array, they also make a huge mess and cause damage to the system.

With a solar panel bird deterrent kit, you can establish a safe physical barrier to keep birds from nesting under the arrays. Additionally, this protects your wiring and other system components from bird damage. Each kit covers a standard 3 kW system, and the installation materials are designed to protect the integrity of the solar panels without causing unnecessary damage.

Bird Spikes

While seeing birds line the edges of city buildings can feel like a hallmark of urban life, it becomes a real nuisance when droppings litter buildings and sidewalks or fall on pedestrians below. Bird droppings are also extremely unhygienic. Keeping buildings and sidewalks clean requires significant funding—resources that are better invested in humane and effective bird spikes.

Bird spikes may sound intimidating, but they are a humane way to prevent large birds from landing on flat or curved surfaces of buildings, bridges, and other structures by eliminating landing footholds. Bird spikes come in several varieties, including:

• Plastic spikes (available in a variety of colors)
• Stainless steel spikes
• Gutter spikes
• Girder spikes
• Mega spikes

Bird spikes are a great way to prevent nuisance birds such as pigeons, gulls, and crows from inhabiting heavily populated areas of your city.

Electric Tracks

When birds set up shop around your city, the consequences inevitably include costly repairs and cleanup for air conditioning units, roofing materials, skylights, signs, and more.

A great way to remedy this damage is to use an electric track bird deterrent to modify bird behavior and encourage them to roost in more appropriate places. Electric tracks are secured with industrial-strength glue to ledges, roofs, rooflines, parapet walls, eaves, and many other flat or curved surfaces. When birds attempt to land on the track, a mild, harmless shock is delivered. This deters them from landing there again without causing injury.

When selecting an electric track system, the Bird Jolt Flat Track Kit features the industry's only anti-arcing design, making it a premier choice for safety and functionality.

Sound Deterrents

One of the most unique ways to manage nuisance animals in the city is to use bird acoustics against them. By utilizing the natural sounds birds make to defend territories, broadcast distress calls, and signal predators, urban bird populations can be effectively managed.

Sound bird deterrents work well in expansive areas such as rooftops, large parks, or other open city zones. The emitted sounds are not high-frequency ultrasonic waves—which can annoy pets or sensitive humans—but rather natural bird calls that blend into the environment.

The sound bird deterrents available from Bird B Gone are easy to use and versatile. They can be calibrated to target specific species or set to a general mode to deter multiple types of birds. Predator and distress calls are repeated every 10 minutes, and the devices can be programmed with light sensors to automatically turn on or off at night.

City Management

Managing a city to ensure buildings, sidewalks, parks, and public spaces remain free from damage, mess, and health hazards caused by birds can be challenging, but utilizing these professional-grade products makes it easy to deter nuisance birds in a humane and cost-effective manner.