Bird-X works collaboratively with scientists, wildlife specialists and industry experts to develop high-quality solutions that provide

lasting results. Bird-X bird and pest control products are developed and tested through many years of research in new repellent methods, applying the latest technology and demonstrating long-term efficacy.

About Bird Control

Why Effective Bird Control is Important
Cost of maintenance:
Pest birds cost individuals and businesses millions of dollars each year in clean-up expense, repairs, and damaged equipment. Large individual companies are spending in the six-figure range.

Corrosive droppings:
The corrosive effects of bird droppings can cause irreversible damage defacing rooftops, walkways, walls, vehicles and equipment. Bird droppings quickly turn to salt and ammonia; after rain, electrochemical reactions speed up the rusting process. These acidic droppings eat away at paint, concrete and metal, and can eventually cause structural failure.

Property damage:
Birds are destructive to property, equipment, and products. They interfere with operations in many ways, endangering themselves and workers pest birds entangle themselves, in machinery, block ventilation ducts, cause fires, peck holes in roofing and utility poles, bring down power lines, and cause hazardous and even fatal aircraft bird strikes.

Liability:
Bird droppings are unsanitary and can render walking surfaces slippery and dangerous, creating unnecessary liabilities. Pollution from bird droppings can enter the human food chain through improper sanitation. Government organizations and health boards such as OSHA and the USDA regularly give citations and fines for bird mess problems. Businesses that fail to correct these situations in a timely manner can face even harsher penalties and may be forced to shut down completely.

Spread of disease:
Birds are known to carry over sixty transmissible diseases some potentially fatal. Bird droppings help to spread disease when fecal dust enters living areas or when someone enters contaminated spaces and starts breathing in fungal spores. Serious diseases associated with pest birds include:

Histoplasmosis a potentially fatal respiratory disease; results from a fungus growing in dried bird droppings. West Nile Virus a serious and potentially life-threatening infection; spread by mosquitos that have fed on infected wild birds. Salmonellosis a bacteria that often occurs as food poisoning; can be traced to pigeons, starlings and sparrows, bird droppings and dust from bird droppings. Candidiasis a yeast or fungal infection that affects the skin, mouth, and respiratory system; spread by pigeons. Cryptococcosis an illness that begins as a pulmonary disease and can later affect the central nervous system; caused by yeast found in the intestinal tract of pigeons and starlings. St. Louis Encephalitis an inflammation of the nervous system that can result in paralysis, coma or death; spread by mosquitos which have fed on infected house sparrows, pigeons, and house finches.

Besides being direct carriers of disease, pest birds are frequently associated with over 50 kinds of ectoparasites, which can work their way throughout structures to infest and bite humans:

Bed bugs parasitic insects that feed on human blood and have become a worldwide epidemic; find out how to detect Bed Bugs sooner with Bed Bug ALERT monitors. Chicken mites known carriers of encephalitis; may also cause fowl mite dermatitis and acariasis. Yellow mealworms may cause intestinal canthariasis and hymenolespiasis.

Are your products humane? Yes. Our products are humane, eco-friendly, non-toxic, non-harmful and extremely effective. We have received referrals from the Audubon Society, the Coalition to Prevent the Destruction of Canada Geese, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Animal Damage Control division of the USDA. Nonlethal deterrents are actually the most effective, because they condition pests to stay away for good. Lethal methods do not make the environment unappealing for future birds. Are ultrasonic and laser repellers a concern for employees, customers, residents, children or pets? It is wise to be cautious with any sound or light in our environment (i.e., avoid loud rock concerts, avoid staring directly at the sun). Bird-X ultrasonic and laser repellers are not dangerous when used as directed. Ultrasonic repellers can be loud, while registering above human hearing range. Laser repellers are fully-registered and consumer safe, though still lasers. We recommend both only at high ceiling levels, not near people for long periods of time. Why do you recommend multiple products? To permanently repel birds and prevent infestation, it is crucial to treat the problem and its source, not just the symptoms. The only way to do this is to make the environment undesirable. Because birds are often long-term visitors with a strong attachment to their habitat, it is critical to attack more than one sense. For example, a sound repeller and a visual scare used together make the area seem threatening on two levels. Each product helps to support the effects of the other, resulting in a higher probability of success overall.

Can birds and pests get used to unmoving, unchanging repellent methods? Pest birds and other animals are smart and stubborn. They quickly acclimate to visual devices that don't move and sound repellers that don't change pattern. All Bird-X products are designed to maintain the element of surprise. Our visual deterrents move and change with the wind and light, and some include always-changing holographic material that further confuses birds. Our sound repellers are programmable to vary their species settings, frequencies, intermittence, hours of operation and more.