Bird Pest Control Geelong

When pests such as the Indian Mynahs, or other birds decide to use your home or commercial property in Geelong or surrounding spaces as nesting places or roosts, it’s time to take action. For instance, you need bird control services before these pests start nesting under your solar panels, creating a fire hazard and doing more damage.

At Essential Pest Solutions, we have several bird infestation control methods that bird-proof residential and commercial properties and deter birds. For more insights on preventing birds from nesting in unwanted places, check out our comprehensive guide on Pesky Birds Nesting in Your Roof.

In Victoria, pest bird species can cause all sorts of pest bird infestation problems requiring bird removal services are pigeons, Indian Mynas, sparrows, seagulls, common starlings, and European song thrushes. These bird pests can carry bed bugs, yellow mealworms and chicken and bird mites and many diseases.

Bird Pest Infestation, Removal and Control

Feral bird pest treatment, removal, control and management are essential for residential and commercial areas of Greater Geelong and Australia-wide. The reasons include:

• Pest birds carry more than 60 diseases they can transmit to people and pets.
• Bird pests carry ectoparasites.
• Bird droppings are acidic and cause staining and corrosion of building materials.
• When birds nest in warehouses and food storage facilities they can contaminate the produce.
• Annual cleanups of bird droppings are very costly.
• Bird nests and droppings can clog drains and cause a fire hazard near wiring, or lighting.
• Droppings can be a liability slip, trip and fall hazard.

Feral bird pests are a common sight in towns and cities across Australia making serious bird control deterrents, bird treatments, removal, and management crucial.

Feral Birds Carry Over 60 Diseases

Feral birds flock in populations anywhere there is food and shelter and this can become a public health risk that needs to be removed and controlled. Problems occurring especially in and around homes, hospitals, schools and high-rise city buildings need the services of pest control experts such as Essential Pest Solutions.

Messing up your roof, downpipes and gutters and leaving their droppings all over your driveway is one thing, but feral pests can carry up to 60 diseases. If you run a business, bird pest infestations can put customers and workers at risk of infections. In residential areas, bird pests can attract bird mites, fleas, flies, and lice and pass on diseases to people and pets.

Diseases Carried by Feral Bird Pests

Bird pests can carry and transmit diseases such as cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis and psittacosis (ornithosis). Pest birds pose more than just avian flu that can kill poultry flocks. Infestations of bird pests are a problem in residential areas since dried droppings can become airborne and transmitted to humans. Some diseases carried by pigeons, starlings, and house sparrows include:

• E.coli – if birds go pecking through cattle manure, the bacteria pass through them into their droppings, ending up in the water supply and food.
• Histoplasmosis – dry droppings can contain a fungus that causes histoplasmosis, a potentially fatal respiratory disease.
• Psittacosis (parrot fever) – if dried droppings become airborne, the fungus that causes this disease can be inhaled.
• Cryptococcosis – this illness may start as a pulmonary disease and can eventually affect the central nervous system.
• Candidiasis – pigeons can spread this fungal or yeast infection to humans.
• Salmonellosis (food poisoning) – can be caused by dried starling, pigeon and sparrow droppings drawn into air conditioners and ventilators.
• St. Louis Encephalitis – mosquitoes that have fed on infected bird pest droppings can spread this disease which causes an inflamed nervous system, headache and fever and drowsiness and can be fatal.

Residential and Commercial Bird Control Solutions

At Essential Pest Solutions, our bird control methods including gutter guards, bird wire systems, bird netting, bird spikes, solar panel proofing, orchard netting and bird deterrents can solve all your pest bird problems. Bird droppings and nesting materials in Greater Geelong commercial premises can damage company vehicles and machinery.

Bird pests in food-producing businesses can pose a serious threat of contamination unless the problem is addressed. As mentioned, bird droppings can spread diseases like salmonella, leading to serious health problems for customers and staff. Commercial businesses can also be exposed to hefty fines, litigation and crippling negative publicity if their customers get sick, so bird control is essential.

Need Bird Control Experts?

Sandstone buildings and other materials are severely affected by highly acidic bird droppings. Air conditioning and other equipment in both commercial settings and residential homes can be damaged beyond repair. Birds can destroy and contaminate insulation.

So, if you have a pest bird population or bird infestation in your Geelong home, yard or business premises and you’re searching for “bird control near me”, make sure you reach out and contact Essential Pest Solutions today at 0438 422 580.