Under the terms of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, every wild bird in the UK receives complete legal protection.
Under the legislation, disturbing roosting birds, taking away nests, or using harmful deterrents is an offence. Nevertheless, effective legal options remain to protect your property against pest bird populations.
Birmingham Pest Control Co. provides skilled bird control across Lickey, using effective deterrent and exclusion methods implemented to ensure no damage comes to protected birds.
To get prompt responses and strong legal protection, please contact our helpful specialists today.
Health risks from pest birds in Lickey
Did you know pest bird droppings are absolutely packed with diverse pathogens?
Did you know dried pigeon droppings carries salmonella, E. coli, and the agent behind ornithosis? This infection is spread through inhaling infected dust or handling contaminated surfaces!
Whenever birds take over a workplace, the silent threat of ornithosis looms a major occupational risk.
With regard to Lickey food service and catering premises, this imposes strict statutory oversight alongside the existing health and safety dangers of guano contamination.
Apart from carrying disease, guano rapidly accumulates inside gutters, across roofing materials, and around drainage points.
Before settling to roost, birds collect along edges, parapets, and roof lines. Beneath them, accumulating droppings silently hastens decay in the stonework, chokes gutters, and transforms the walkways below into dangerously slick hazards.
Ignoring bird issues at a Lickey property worsens property damage, accumulates guano, and makes sure your installation job costs more the longer you wait.
Whatever the avian species, our customised plans guarantee that your site, staff, and occupants remain thoroughly protected against bird-borne health hazards.
Pest bird species in Lickey
Wild pigeons and seagulls create the clearest damage on Lickey’s commercial buildings, as flat roofs and ledges provide them continual roosting shelter.
They present a recurring difficulty, entering roof voids through considerably smaller openings than either of the remaining species.
Our technicians regularly remove guano and nest material before fitting fixings. Disturbed dry guano poses instant health concerns, and left nest material swiftly invites secondary infestations to the area.
Please explore this range of the avian species we frequently manage on a day-to-day.
Feral pigeons
Feral pigeon populations routinely gather in significant concentrations throughout all of our urban environments.
Did you realise pigeon pairs can hatch up to 6 broods each year? Their numbers increase very quickly on almost any property with unoccupied perches or loft spaces!
Pigeons predictably go back to long-standing nesting and resting sites, which means temporary dispersal methods fail to break their repeated behaviour.
Effective pigeon control in Lickey involves physical barriers that prevent landing altogether, which subtly leads the birds to choose an alternative place to roost.
Seagulls and gulls
Herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls have expanded their range inland, creating permanent nesting colonies throughout the wider area of Lickey and the greater Midlands.
Gathering in dense colonies upon horizontal roof spaces, these noisy birds show very aggressive behaviour during their annual nesting season, which typically lasts from April until August.
Since gulls are much heavier than pigeons, you must implement post and wire systems or heavy duty netting rather than lighter pigeon control methods.
We carefully customise our bird control systems for gull colonies to fit each specific setting.
Instead of offering a standard, basic package, we carefully customise our specialist advice and your bespoke solution based upon roof structure and colony size.
Starlings
We identify starlings as a seasonal pest bird within Lickey.
They gain access to roof voids through narrower apertures than pigeons, utilising open ridge tiles, damaged soffits, and broken fascia boards.
Starlings roosting inside a roof space gather large amounts of droppings and nesting materials over a one season.
Bird control solutions in Lickey
We implement a comprehensive range of bird control systems, adapting our approach to the specific species, property design, and total scale of the infestation.
No proper recommendation is ever offered until we initially inspect your location and evaluate the unwanted issue directly.
Every first property assessment is completely free of charge, with absolutely no requirement for any commitment.
Bird netting
To achieve the most complete protection, bird netting systematically secures roof perimeters, open facades, plant rooms, and building recesses, which reliably blocks access to nesting and roosting sites.
We install UV stable polyethylene net with mesh openings tailored to each species, utilising 10mm for starlings, 50mm for pigeons, and 75mm for gulls.
Using stainless steel anchor systems helps ensure these fixings are safely tensioned into masonry, steel, or timber.
When correctly fitted, netting remains almost imperceptible from the pavement, providing a highly advanced and efficient avian control method.
Bird spikes
Installing bird spikes on ledged surfaces, low walls, sills, pipes, and signage eliminates perching areas.
These work by making the landing surface highly uncomfortable rather than forming a tangible barrier to the birds.
To preserve heritage and listed buildings, we recommend polycarbonate spikes because they ensure the deterrent remains entirely unobtrusive.
For tough industrial landscapes where enduring relentless dirt outweighs aesthetic appeal, resilient stainless steel remains the most suitable choice. It simply endures.
We initially uncover the unique narrative of your space, so that our ultimate product recommendation is a genuinely ideal solution.
Bird wire
By utilising tensioned stainless steel wire secured among posts, bird wire systems create a structurally unstable landing surface across level ledges, balconies, and roof ridges.
Providing a very discreet profile, wire suits prestigious civic and commercial buildings where aesthetics are of utmost importance. It also protects delicate heritage architecture where drilling for spike or netting fixings remains completely unsuitable.
First, wire provides the subtlest deterrent for business and public properties where appearance is essential. Secondly, this choice protects heritage sites where drilling for spike or netting installations is unsuitable.
Bird free gel
To protect any targeted surface from unwanted avian behaviour, Bird Free gel is deployed within a compact dish placed on that area.
Standing a modest eight millimetres tall, it stays completely hidden from human eyes on the ground level, yet the resident bird population will definitely notice its presence.
Because birds see ultraviolet light, this clever gel makes for the building seem like it is entirely on fire!
Where infestations are minor or medium, we apply gentle methods to prompt the birds to relocate.
Bird proofing for vents and entry points
How do starlings and sparrows access roof spaces? They enter through soffits left open, broken fascias, and small gaps in ridge tiles!
We secure these entry points using stainless steel mesh or appropriate vent covers, selected to suit the particular bird species and opening size.
To guarantee complete adherence to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, all exclusionary measures must be arranged outside the active nesting season.
Bird control for Lickey businesses
Effective avian management systems for business properties incorporate structural barriers along the external boundary with routine inspections designed to spot if alternative nesting habitats are developing.
Do you manage sites across several Lickey and West Midlands premises? We can win a strong agreement covering planned inspections alongside ad hoc callouts for any new bird issues between visits!
Lickey Pest Control Co. services diverse sectors all across the region, including restaurants and cafés, hotels, schools, university campuses, and industrial sites.
To accommodate your schedule, our domestic and commercial bird control services in Lickey are programmed around your opening hours, whilst offering detailed written documentation for Environmental Health and health and safety files.
We support our commercial clients by offering complete documentation for our pest control services, recording each visit, survey, and item installed.
Should an EHO seek verification of your current pest management programme, they will locate all necessary proof quickly available.
Our Lickey bird control service
Birmingham Pest Control Co. has comprehensive accreditation from the BPCA.
Our trained bird control technicians use approved installation methods, ensuring full compliance with the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the relevant legislation.
British Pest Control Association accreditation sets the UK standard for professional pest control, easily verified via the official BPCA directory.
We carry out a free site survey before providing your custom quotation.
Upon coming to your premises, our Lickey specialists pinpoint the specific nuisance bird species, inspect their nesting or roosting habitats, and provide a complimentary quotation on the very same day.
Once we have completed your evaluation, you are under no obligation to go ahead.
As the specialist pest control specialists for Lickey, we provide continuous availability around the clock, throughout the week, for time-sensitive callouts and everyday enquiries.
Get in touch for a free site survey
For reliable property safeguarding, Birmingham Pest Control Co. delivers domestic and business bird proofing and pest bird control throughout Lickey and the wider-reaching West Midlands.
Are you eager to handle your bird troubles rapidly, kindly, and lawfully? We are absolutely the leading specialist team to choose!
Get in touch via our contact form or phone us today. We will schedule a thorough property survey, determine the species and precise roosting sites, and provide your written quote. You are under completely no obligation to proceed.
Get in touch with us to contact our courteous team as soon as possible on 0121 816 0399 to schedule your free site survey, as we are ready to assist you at any time.
