Birds Control in New Jersey
Experienced Professionals Are Needed to Deter Birds
The three primary nuisance birds in New Jersey are pigeons, house sparrows, and starlings. All of these species are non-native; they 
were introduced into the United States from Europe. For commercial customers, nuisance birds are a significant problem. Not only do their droppings create an unsightly mess and an unprofessional image for customers entering and exiting the building, but in a warehouse, nuisance birds can easily ruin valuable inventory and pose a heath threat to employees. Unfortunately, problem birds don’t magically go away and decide it’s time to bother someone else. Once they are settled in, you can assume they will be there for the long-term. To get rid of nuisance birds, you need an experienced bird control professional who can evaluate the problem and institute cost-effective bird-control measures that work.
Deterrents and Behavior Modification Are the Most Successful Methods of Bird Control
Bird control is a multi-tactic approach involving a variety of deterrents, most of them physical such as bird spikes and netting. Effective long-term bird control requires behavior modification. The whole idea is to make your structure inhospitable to birds so they go somewhere else. The harsh reality is that bird control is about making nuisance birds someone else’s problem. That’s the nature of bird control. You are telling the birds, don’t go away mad, just go away. And that’s all you want to do.
Canada Geese Can Be Very Agressive
Unfortunately, the sheer numbers of these nuisance birds grows unabated. For example, starlings, roosting in hordes of up to a million, can devour up to 20 tons of potatoes in a single day. In terms of the amount of damage caused by waste droppings and the entrenched level of infestation, pigeons are the most common nuisance bird in New Jersey. But there are other nuisance birds besides “the big three” including scavenging gulls that are especially common at the Jersey Shore since the salt marsh near Wildwood is one of the largest gull breeding grounds in the world. Canada geese are also a major problem, not just for airplanes taking off from LaGuardia. Canada geese aggressively defend their nests and goose attacks on people are fairly common.
Birds Are Associated With a Multitude of Diseases
There are over 60 diseases associated with birds and their droppings. Many of the fungal diseases are incurable. Disturbing a bird’s dried droppings releases microscopic infectious spores into the air carrying bacteria and lethal fungi that can be easily inhaled. Bird-transmitted diseases include a long list of fungal diseases including histoplasmosis, a fungal lung ailment that can lead to chronic respiratory ailments, and toxoplasmosis, which is especially dangerous to pregnant women. Droppings can also transfer viral meningitis and encephalitis. During the winter, the Canada geese population swells to over 200,000, which translates into 80,000 pounds of geese feces per day deposited in New Jersey.
Birds Are Unsightly for Business
Droppings destroy property as well. They can discolor paint, stain wood, and is acidic enough to erode metal and dissolve paint and car finishes. It can even cause concrete and expensive stonework to crumble. Birds can cause extensive damage to buildings, ventilation systems, and machinery. Birds nests in rain gutters can cause water backup that can lead to dangerous and costly structural damage.
Cowleys Has The Solutions
Cowleys has the expertise to investigate and resolve the most complicated bird problem. We are also experienced in cleaning up bird droppings. Bird droppings are the health equivalent of toxic waste. Don’t subject your employees to that sort of danger. Have a professional service with the right protective masks and equipment that is trained in hazmat procedures using the right cleaning products remove the bird droppings from your building. Have it done right and have it done safely.
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