Even when you’re doing everything right from a maintenance perspective, your building can unintentionally invite birds to roost, nest, or forage. From reflective glass to improperly managed waste, every aspect of a facility can send signals that attract birds-creating safety hazards, structural damage, and cleaning headaches.
Here’s a guide for facilities managers on common attractants and how to proactively prevent bird problems.
Birds often perceive reflections on glass as open sky or habitat. Large windows, glass doors, or mirrored facades can become collision hazards or draw birds toward your building.
Maintenance Solution:
Apply visual deterrent decals or films to break up reflections.
Consider Avitrol products designed to discourage perching near windows without harming birds.
Roof edges, ledges, beams, and other architectural features often provide safe perches or nesting sites. Unmonitored, these areas become hotspots for droppings, nests, and structural damage.
Maintenance Solution:
Use Avitrol grain or bait formulations to manage problem flocks.
Avitrol’s behavioral products can help disperse birds safely, reducing perching and nesting on ledges.
Outdoor lighting can unintentionally attract birds, especially migratory species, leading to disorientation and congregation near your facility.
Maintenance Solution:
Use motion-activated or shielded lights to minimize light pollution.
Turn off non-essential lights during peak migration or breeding seasons.
Combine lighting management with Avitrol products in nearby feeding areas to discourage lingering birds.
Unsecured doors, loading bays, and service entrances offer birds temporary shelter, especially in inclement weather. These areas often become high-traffic roosting zones.
Maintenance Solution:
Apply Avitrol bait in strategic locations near problem areas to discourage birds from entering or staying.
Consider timed or automated doors to limit access.
Waste management areas, dumpsters, and improperly stored food attract birds looking for an easy meal. Birds frequenting these areas can spread disease and create hazards for staff and customers.
Maintenance Solution:
Ensure dumpsters are regularly emptied and cleaned.
Store waste in sealed containers and maintain a strict cleaning schedule around loading zones.
Use Avitrol bait near food sources or roosting areas to deter birds safely and reduce congregation.
Facilities managers play a critical role in preventing bird-related problems. Proactive measures reduce the need for reactive cleaning or costly repairs, enhance safety, and protect your facility’s image.
Key Actions:
Conduct routine inspections to identify high-risk areas.
Implement a combination of structural modifications, Avitrol-based deterrents, and operational changes.
Partner with bird control experts for tailored, long-term strategies.
Your building communicates to birds every day-intentionally or not. By understanding these signals and implementing strategic Avitrol solutions, you can protect your facility, improve safety, and reduce maintenance costs.
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