by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 20, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, UltraSonic Bird Control
Much goes into maintaining the grounds and operations of a major airport that typical travelers don’t see. One of those is managing bird populations.
On Friday, a Tampa resident tweeted a photo of pigeons confined in a cage on the roof of Tampa International Airport’s long-term parking garage. Susan Gail Taylor, a social media manager and copywriter for RME360, a direct-marketing company in Tampa, tweeted, “Are there really pigeons being trapped there and held outside in this oppressive heat?”
For the past three weeks, a pest control company contracted by the Tampa airport has been trapping pigeons on the property and euthanizing them to help reduce the bird population, said Emily Nipps, an airport spokeswoman. Pigeons and other birds present unique safety issues at airports, as they can interfere with aircraft that are taking off and landing. It’s not uncommon to read news reports about flight delays and cancellations because of collisions with birds.
“The problem with pigeons is we can’t trap them and release them somewhere else because they’ll always come back to where they came from,” Nipps said.
After Taylor’s tweet, the airport was answering questions from travelers about the birds on social media and through emails Friday. The traps also were removed from the parking garage.
The airport has been trapping pigeons periodically for years when the populations get too great. Nipps said the pigeons are attracted to the high buildings at the airport.
“They present significant health and safety concerns,” she said.
The pigeons are removed from the traps daily and euthanized. They have access to water while they’re confined, she said.
The airport also uses other measures to control the bird population such as shooting loud cracker shells to scare them away from runways and cutting the grass at a certain angle to not attract too many bugs.
“The population gets worse every couple of years,” Nipps said.
Taylor, who tweeted the photo, said she didn’t take the picture but received it from a friend. Officials with the Tampa airport responded to Taylor’s tweet on Twitter. She was encouraged to call Nipps, who told her she is a bird owner herself.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 18, 2016 | Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes, UltraSonic Bird Control
Hoards of pigeons are damaging homes and creating havoc in Makkah, according to the city’s residents.
Spokesman for Makkah Municipality Osama Zaytooni said a number of residents are complaining that pigeons are ruining their crops and trees, and leaving their droppings in backyards and across rooftops.
“There are pigeons in great numbers almost everywhere you go,” Zaytooni said. “Although some might enjoy the beautiful bird and feed them as they are passing by, most people are fed up with the mess pigeons leave behind.”
He added that the municipality is also struggling with the problem, as they are creating a mess in Makkah’s streets and parks.
“Every day, we send workers to clean the streets as pigeons leave their droppings, dirtying the streets and ruining the grass in the parks,” Zaytooni said. “It is costing the municipality a lot of money.”
He also said some people have taken matters into their own hands and begun killing pigeons, but the municipality does not condone acts of animal cruelty.
“Some people have set up electric wires on their windowsills to prevent pigeons from nesting there,” Zaytooni said. “Others simply shoo them away and some have hired exterminators. Some would even drive through the middle of a pigeon herd and run over whatever obstructs their way.”
Zaytooni said the municipality has contracted a company to capture the pigeons and not kill them.
“Even though their numbers are destroying the nature of the city, they are still animals and they have their rights.”
Zaytooni said the municipality plans to capture a good number of pigeons to reduce their density and are also investigating a reproduction control strategy to ensure the problem doesn’t recur.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 16, 2016 | Bird Netting, Pigeons in the News, UltraSonic Bird Control
Mondovi (WQOW) – Tuesday night, Mondovi City Council will consider a problem dotted with pigeon droppings.
News 18 spoke with the City Administrator Dan Lauersdorf on Monday. He said it’s a continuing problem, and that Mondovi has been dealing with pigeon control for the past 28 years he’s been there.
Lauersdorf also said downtown business owners are sick of seeing pigeons perched on their buildings and sick of the droppings they leave behind. It’s been about five years since the city has tried getting rid of them, like poisoning corn kernels, or setting out decoy owls to scare them away, but the pigeons keep coming back and so do the proposals to get rid of them.
“I got one today, a company that has a machine shoots something in the air that’s supposed to make the pigeons not want to come to that area, it’s made from the skin of grapes,” Lauersdorf added.
Lauersdorf also received a couple proposals to live-trap the birds. Tuesday, the city council will consider all the proposals. A final decision may or may not be made.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 12, 2016 | Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes, UltraSonic Bird Control
AvePro Bird Netting was selected as the primary netting product for the new Melbourne Market Canopies project. One of the largest bird netting projects completed to date in Australia, the work was accomplished by AvePro’s Victoria-based installation team in about 10 weeks. Pest IT Pty Ltd supplied the netting for the project.
The installation team consisting of 15 teams of netting installers worked around the clock while AvePro worked at a feverish pace to keep up with the production and the short procurement time.
The massive Melbourne Market Canopies bird netting project required almost 60,000 square metres of AvePro Deluxe 19mm net and hundreds of thousands of stainless steel fittings as well as 13,000 metres of zipper featuring a custom design. Each of the 250-plus stallholder canopy bays has a 33-metre supporting zipper that allows complete access to the roof mounted cameras, fire services, vents and serviceable fixtures as well as the refrigeration appliances on the roof.
A key objective of the project at the Melbourne Market was to create a bird-free zone to meet the requirements for food safety, cleanliness and hygiene while also reducing maintenance. The AvePro system prevents birds from accessing or roosting above the stallholder canopy bays, truck wash areas and loading docks.
Pest IT supplied the materials, training and design to assist the installation team and the client. Stall holders for both the new Flower Market and Fruit and Vegetable Markets will move into their new AvePro ‘Bird-Free Zone’ when the market opens in August 2015
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 11, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, UltraSonic Bird Control
LINDENHURST, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — An effort to protect pedestrians from pigeon droppings is creating quite a mess on Long Island.
As CBS2’s Jennifer McLogan reported, the Long Island Rail Road put up fish netting below overhead rails, but birds became trapped in the netting and died.
Residents in Lindenhurst complain of the appalling sight as live pigeons are entangled in the tough new netting, even laying eggs on it, McLogan reported.
“That’s messed up. They should at least let them fly away first,” said Brandon Diaz.
Below the LIRR tracks, under the superstructure, several of the birds have already succumbed to the lack of food and inability to free themselves. Smelly carcasses have been spotted on a ledge and in a cage, McLogan reported.
“It is a sin. It shouldn’t be happening. It’s cruelty,” said James Abendolla.
Small business owner T.C. Kross contacted the MTA, enraged over what she called animal abuse.
The agency explained it is doing its best to curb droppings and keep pigeons away from passengers, McLogan reported.
Kross said the pigeons, once heralded as military messengers during World War I and II, don’t deserve to suffer.
“Netting over a live animal so they die of dehydration and starvation, that’s not OK,” said Kross.
Locals contacted pigeon experts seeking advice and alternatives were suggested, including spikes and egg sterilization, McLogan reported.
“I’m shocked too because basically we called the MTA in regards to the problem we have with the pigeons,” said Lindenhurst Mayor Thomas Brennan. “They put up these nets, which were horrendous, and now they want us to clean it up.”
The MTA is now accepting responsibility — and getting an earful from residents worried about their health from inhaling dried bird droppings.
“It’s airborne, so you don’t know if you’re gonna get sick or not. We have animals up there that are dying and eating each other and eating their eggs, and it’s just not right,” said Lauraine Ippolo.
The MTA said the pigeons will be released from the netting. A clean up is now underway and a new plan to keep the pigeons at bay is in the works, McLogan reported.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 3, 2016 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, UltraSonic Bird Control
It may sound like something from a 1960s B-film, but a project in North Yorkshire that uses lasers to deter pigeons is proving remarkably successful.
Gavin Milson, project technical assistant at Stockbridge Technology Centre, Cranfield University and high-tech GPS company Manterra reckon that using laser-based bird deterrents could be a cost-effective answer to dealing with the feathered fiends.
The equipment emits a strobing laser – akin to what you might find at a disco – which serves to scare off troublesome birds.
See also: Suffolk farmer battles pigeons with drones
In a Tru-Nject project – a high-tech study designed to investigate soil mapping and fertiliser application – had been set up to in late July this year, 165,000 pointed cabbage were transplanted at a North Yorkshire farm.
Normally the crop would be netted after transplanting, but the project team used a Dutch Agrilaser Autonomic laser, powered by a solar panel and deep-cycle gel battery.
Mr Milson is delighted with the outcome.
“This novel piece of technology appears to have effectively protected the cabbages.
“Its potential for bird control in field vegetables has generated significant interest and is threatening to emerge as a major, albeit unexpected, output from the project.
“Whilst light bird damage has been noted on selected plants in some isolated areas of the crop, complete loss of any individual plant to birds has not”
Gavin Milson, Stockbridge Technology Centre
“Whilst light bird damage has been noted on selected plants in some isolated areas of the crop, complete loss of any individual plant to birds has not.
“Indeed, the vast majority of plants have received no unwanted attention from pigeons at all.”
The Tru-Nject team are now discussing plans to fully test the system in an oilseed rape crop later this year, comparing laser-protected crops to unprotected control crops.
It is hoped that this will provide even stronger evidence that the Agrilaser can function as a stand-alone option to manage bird damage in field crops.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
