Commercial Bird Control Services

Professional Bird Control For Your Commercial Business

Pest birds like starlings, pigeons, and sparrows are all part of the natural environment, but when they invade your commercial facility, they can prove to be a real nuisance. As well as bringing noise, feathers, and droppings, they can also carry disease and damage your commercial property. This is why it is important to have a professional bird control company handle any bird issues your business might be facing.

Dangers Associated With Pest Birds And Bird Droppings

Pest birds can carry ectoparasites like fleas, mites, and ticks. All of these ectoparasites have the ability to transmit diseases to customers, employees, and livestock.

Pest bird droppings often contain a litany of different diseases from the e-coli to fungal diseases like histoplasmosis and cryptococcosis, which are especially dangerous to people with compromised immune systems.

Pest birds can also damage facilities and equipment, creating drainage issues and fire hazards by nesting in small crevices, drains, and gutters. Not only that, but pest bird droppings can stick to buildings, potentially eroding the structure and compromising the integrity.

Common Pest Birds

Rock Pigeons

In urban environments, pigeons prefer to nest in the artificial cliffs created by tall urban buildings with accessible ledges and roof spaces. These birds are commonly known as “sky rats” because of their ability to transmit potentially fatal diseases like salmonellosis, toxoplasmosis, and tuberculosis to people. Their feces can be deadly, as it can contain deadly fungal and bacterial diseases which is especially dangerous for people with compromised immune systems.

European Starlings

European Starlings are noisy nuisance birds that can do serious harm to humans, pets, and livestock. These pest birds can transmit parasites, like mites, fleas, and bat bugs, as well as potentially fatal diseases, including histoplasmosis, salmonellosis, toxoplasmosis, and chlamydiosis. Additionally, the combined weight of a flock of European starlings – which can be up to 20,000 birds in the winter – can break branches and disfigure trees making it a hazard for any structure nearby.

House Sparrows

Sparrows typically live near humans because it provides them with some security from natural predators. Sparrows transmit diseases which affect humans, pets and livestock. Some of these can be fatal, including beef tapeworms, chlamydiosis, erysipeloid, Newcastle disease, salmonellosis, schistosomiasis, and toxoplasmosis.

These pest birds also wreak havoc on commercial properties; deface buildings and facilities with their nests and droppings. If a nest occurs in a heavily infested location, Sparrows can be surprisingly aggressive, often attacking any potential threat to their nest.

Canadian Geese

Canadian geese can be more than a nuisance for commercial property owners, as these birds can carry and have the potential to transmit a variety of pathogens that can severely impact the health of your customers and staff. These pathogens can include avian influenza, salmonella, and Campylobacter. Geese can also carry ectoparasites such as fleas, biting lice, and bird mites.

Canadian geese can be very aggressive and can injure humans and pets if they attack. These geese can also overgraze on lawns and leave droppings on pathways around hospitals, campuses, and public parks, potentially damaging the property. They also cause issues for crop growers, as these pest birds can consume crops, resulting in a reduction in the yield and increased soil erosion. They are hazard to aircrafts near airports. They contaminate water bodies such as ponds, drinking water sources and can also damage ornamental plants

How Orkin Canada Controls Your Bird Issue

Inspection

When your Orkin Canada technician starts a bird control inspection, identification is essential. As your technician will need to determine that the bird in question is in fact a nuisance bird (pigeons, sparrows, starlings). This is to ensure that bird species protected by federal and provincial legislation remain undisturbed.

Bird Control Methods

Exclusion & Deterrents

When it comes to making a property unattractive to birds, exclusion and deterrent methods are the ideal solution. These can include a variety of different tactics such as netting, bird wire, pyrotechnics, along with a host of other approaches customized to your facility.

Trapping

Depending upon the size and resilience of the flock, trapping can be a necessary part of an effective bird control program. Offering quick and humane removal of pest birds, a trapping approach ensures that the birds have access to food, water, shelter, sufficient space to move around within the trap in accordance with government regulations. Additionally, your Orkin Canada technician regularly check the traps to ensure the necessities are being provided and humanely removes any pest birds within it.

Birds of Prey Pest Bird Abatement Services

Keeping pest birds such as pigeons, seagulls and Canadian Geese off your commercial property can be a time consuming and expensive process. Orkin Canada’s innovation and eco-friendly birds of prey program can be an ideal solution when bird proofing isn’t an option due to physical limitations. Whether you’ve tried conventional methods like decoys and noise makers or you are looking for a humane and effective bird deterrent, Orkin Canada can help.

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Habitat Modification

In order to ensure that your property remains bird-free, habitat modification is an important part of an effective commercial bird control program. Your Orkin Canada technician looks for possible sources that may be attracting birds to your property and will advise on how to effectively modify the area to ensure that it is no longer attractive to any roosting birds.

Clean-up

Depending on the scope of job involved, your Orkin Canada technician applies a disinfectant to the area in order to ensure a sanitary space to treat. 

This sanitation process also reduces an area’s nesting fidelity; the likelihood that a bird will come back to a place where they have nested in the past. By reducing nesting fidelity, birds have a lower likelihood to return to your property, as the evidence such as droppings have been removed from the area.

Common Types of Bird Control Services Offered

• Canadian Goose Control
• Pigeon Control & Removal Services
• Sparrow Control
• Seagull Control

Common Places Where Birds Can Pose A Threat

When looking at common spaces where bird control may be necessary, it is important to know that birds prefer to nest in spaces where they can roost (a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night) and have protection above their heads. These common spaces can include:

• Retail Stores (Signage)
• Restaurant & Food Services (Signage, Canopies, Patios)
•  Apartment/Multi-Unit Buildings (Balconies)
• Waste Management Industry (Landfills, Recycling Centres, Dump Areas)

Let Orkin Canada Control Your Pest Bird Problem

With over 71 years of experience in Canada and a team of knowledgeable bird control experts, you can rest easy knowing that your commercial bird issue will be professionally controlled. To get started, contact your local Orkin Canada branch today!

The Orkin Canada Process

Orkin Canada will provide you with the industry’s best integrated commercial pest management service, combining all available methods of keeping birds out of your business.

Inspection

Orkin Canada technicians will carry out a comprehensive check of all your commercial facilities,  to identify pest-activity zones.

Analysis

Your Orkin Canada technicians will conduct a facility layout analysis, noting all current and potential problem areas.

Identification

You, your employees, and your customers should submit bird reports to Orkin Canada, giving the location and time of any sighting.

Customization

Your Orkin Canada technicians will create an integrated pest management program tailored specifically to your facilities.

Sanitation

Your integrated pest management program will be centred around a daily sanitation schedule, focused on reducing specific risk factors.

Control

Your Orkin Canada technicians will set up suitable bird control or removal, in compliance with wildlife and bird regulations.

Monitoring

Orkin Canada will provide your business with ongoing pest control monitoring and maintenance, to make sure your bird problem has been eliminated.