What's wrong with a few birds?

Few people realize just how many problems birds can cause. In addition to costing businesses millions of dollars each year in structural damage and cleanup, birds are also a serious health hazard to both employees and customers. How can a few birds cause so much trouble?

Birds harm your workplace.

When they choose your workplace as a home, birds always bring a few friends. Pigeons, in particular, are known to travel and roost in large flocks that may include hundreds of birds. Most birds also lay eggs up to four times a year. Once your building houses a few birds, expect it to house many more in short order.

These birds can harm the integrity of your building in many ways, including:

• Physical damage from droppings

• Structural damage to air conditioning, vents, and roofing

• Creation of a serious fire hazard with nesting materials

• Excessive noise

• Negative image and unsightly appearance

Birds are a serious health risk.

Many birds are breeding grounds for all sorts of harmful bacteria, disease, and parasite. Diseases such as salmonella, histoplasmosis, and meningitis can be carried by some domesticated species with no real effects, but when passed on to humans these diseases are often very serious. If food or medicine is processed on the vicinity, health inspectors are quick to fail those who house birds.

• Birds also carry parasites such as ticks, mites, and fleas - just to name a few. Over 40 species of parasites have been found on domesticated bird species or in their nests in the United States.

• Over time, bird fecal matter dries and becomes airborne; when inhaled the warm damp environment of the lung makes an ideal breeding ground for bacteria.

• Contact with fecal matter in a wound or cut can cause sepsis or severe infection.

• Birds often defecate directly into food or water supplies. Several thousand cases of salmonella a year are attributed to this method of transmission.

How Myers can help

Myers Pest Control offers several solutions to rid your business of birds once and for all. We offer a comprehensive program to not only chase birds away, but to ensure your facility remains sanitary, attractive, and bird-free. We offer the following bird control products. Our expert application of one or more of these excellent products works against bird infestations of any size and severity.

One of our most simple solutions is the application of PignX - a cutting edge, EPA registered, and environmentally-friendly bird repellant. This solution is not only affordable and 100% safe and biodegradable, but also completely humane. PignX is a simple gel easily and quickly applied to exposed areas where birds are likely to roost. Read more about the benefits of this cutting-edge bio-repellant here.

Another option is bird netting. This net comes in several neutral colors to be as discrete as possible and requires very little ongoing maintenance. Durable and 100% humane, this netting makes it impossible for unwanted birds to roost on your property.

Our final line of defense against bird pests is the installation of various types of bird shock tracks. These are an even more durable long-term solution than netting. The tracks deliver a mild electric jolt only; birds will not be harmed but only conditioned to land elsewhere. These shock tracks are extremely discrete - we offer several neutral colors and tracks are less than 1/4" high.

Whatever your needs for bird control, just call Myers Pest. We are the industry experts in humane, effective, and environmentally-friendly bird control.

The Myers Bird Abatement Program in Action