The types of Starling Deterrents We Use On Your Residential & Commercial Properties
At Standard Pest Management, we pride ourselves on being able to construct fully custom deterrents in order to keep Starlings from finding entry points to nest and to keep them away. Their nesting areas include ledges with overhang, rooftops, window sills, entryways to buildings/homes, signage and far more than we can list. They find entrance into many homes and businesses through vents, ducts, wall holes, wall gaps, and of course, windows. Our most commonly used deterrents for Starlings are listed below.
Bird Wire
Like so many other birds, European Starlings like being perched up alongside flat surfaces on your home or commercial property. Our Bird wire deterrents keep them from enjoying any sort of stability. Instead of landing or gathering on a flat surface, they’ll be landing on a wire composed of steel, coated with Nylon and help up by springs. These springs are what provide a completely unstable surface for a Starling to land on.
Shock Track
If Starlings have made your home or business, they’re own; the shock track will send them elsewhere. We realize it may sound a bit aggressive, but it’s essentially harmless. The shock-track systems we install are barely visible to the naked eye. Therefore, the appearance conscious will favor this type of protection over others. It also functions exactly as intended. If a starling attempts to land on the shock track, they will receive a powerful, yet harm-less jolt. This will tell it and all the members of its flock that your property is not fit for nesting in any way possible!
Bird Netting
Our experts use Bird netting for a wide variety of projects. Although it can be used for just about any type of project, it’s typical that we approach larger outdoor spaces with ideas of netting deterrents. When our customer is faced with a huge nesting problem that is on-going within outdoor spaces, we will custom fit Bird netting to keep out any flocks. Before we do this, our team will get to work cleaning out any nests. This includes Starling droppings, feathers, twigs, pests, and much more. We have high PSI industrial grade power-washing equipment to get the job done properly. Once the area is clean and secure, we’ll put the netting in place. This will keep all European Starlings and other birds from entering or creating future nesting sites.
Bird Spikes
Our Bird spike deterrent systems don’t actually harm the Starlings giving you issues. They exist more like a early-warning system which is designed to not so-subtly say “Do Not Land Here” Although, Bird spike deterrents aren’t the most fashionable or discreet; they do the job effectively. Since Starlings and other nuisance Birds prefer landing and nesting on flat spaces, spikes are the last place they’d want to be.
OvoControl Flock Management
This type of deterrent can be looked upon as an addition to an existing Bird control system you have put in place for proactive measures. It works by automatically dispensing bait, which the Starlings will feed upon and eventually bring to their nest. It contains a substance that prevents them from being able to reproduce. It is not harmful and does not kill, however in areas where the nesting and population of birds is “out of control,” this goes a long way toward helping alleviate nuisances.