Bird-B-Gone Owner, Bruce Donoho was recently interviewed about bird control by Brick Underground.com, a website for NYC homeowners:

Pigeons are the dirty little secret of many NYC apartment buildings: They render terraces unusable and devour facades with their acid-charged droppings. Worse, pigeons love to nest in rooftop HVAC systems, where they can potentially spread disease through an entire building, posing a serious risk to people with compromised immune systems.

“Diseases are carried in the feces—and when the feces dry up and become airborne, like when someone sweeps them, they can be inhaled or enter the body through any openings like your eyes or a cut,” says Bruce Donoho, owner of Bird.B.Gone, which manufacturers many of the bird control products used in the city.  The disease-bearing spores can also be inhaled by your window air conditioner and spewed into your apartment.

In the old days before it was banned locally, the silver bullet of pigeon control was Avitrol, a drug injected into birdseed and corn which disoriented the birds (scaring away the rest of the flock) before killing them and any other birds which happened to snack on the deadly offerings.

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Mission Viejo, CA: Bird-B-Gone
Mist, the latest ground-breaking product offered by Bird-B-Gone Inc., has been named one of Buildings Magazines’ TOP 100 Products of 2009! Products were chosen based on their “innovation, functionality, efficiency, and environmental friendliness”.

From the editors; “Ideal for hard-to-treat open spaces, rooftops, warehouses or buildings, Bird-B-Gone Mist is an advanced hazing system that emits a non-toxic grape extract into the air to deter birds, geese, and ducks.” The unit has a programmable LCD touch screen, and can be operated at a distance. Bird-B-Gone Mist is ideal for airfields, manufacturing plants, warehouses, rooftops, and any large open space where pest birds have become a problem.

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Bird-B-Gone, Inc was founded in 1992, and offers a complete line of affordable, and effective bird control products made in the U.S.A. Products include netting, spikes, slope, electric track, and more. For additional information on Bird-B-Gone visit; www.birdbgone.com, or call 1-800-392-6915.

New Review from Craziest Gadgets.com:

Birds are awesome! I love birds! I had turducken for lunch. Birds are
free, they can fly where they want. The world is theirs. But sometimes
that freedom is too much for the human world and the birds go places
where they shouldn’t. At that point the birds have become pest birds.
Nobody wants a pest bird whether it’s a pigeon, seagull, sparrow,
starling, turkey vulture, crow, or Canadian goose. There are many ways
to get rid of pest birds but it can be tricky when the birds are
dropping guano on your roof or other hard to reach spot (hard for you
to reach, easy for our feathered friends).

The Bird-B-Gone Solar Powered Bird Repeller
can help you with your bird problem. Unlike ultrasonic or other
repellers, this is guaranteed to work in any conditions. The easy to
mount repeller has a 5′ diameter continuously rotating arm like a
helicopter. The arm rotates at 30RPMs and is powered by a solar panel.
It also comes with 3 AA rechargeable batteries for nighttime use. Ideal
for roofs, signs, billboards, parapet walls or any other flat surface
where birds are an issue. Unless you have one of those jump-roping
birds, there’s no way this can fail. Birds be gone!

http://craziestgadgets.com/2009/06/14/bird-b-gone-solar-powered-bird-repeller/

The name bird spikes conjures up notions of barbarians with studded weapons used against defenseless little birds, but that is just not true. Bird control spikes, also known as needle spikes or anti-roosting spikes are devices consisting of long,
needle-like spikes used to control pest birds.
The needles or spikes are usually all plastic or a plastic base with stainless steel spikes. They are

harmless to pest birds, the spikes are not sharp, but create an unsuitable landing area for the birds so they move on to a more hospitable site. Bird spikes are designed to keep pest pigeons and larger birds off of building ledges, signs, parapet walls and other flat surfaces that pest birds like to roost and nest on.

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