Examining The Effectiveness Of Bird Netting To Keep Bird Populations Under Control

By Steven B.t Smith

The features and advantages of bird netting for avian control programs are many and varied. For airports or areas that need to ensure that bird populations either do not get out of hand or do not interfere with vital transportation or other activities, going with such netting -- which generally is very cost-effective -- can make a great deal of sense.

Specifically, bird netting is also probably a much more effective and sensible method for keeping down large bird populations that can create problems when they interact with many different human activities. This is especially so when agricultural processes, aviation and small-scale gardening or birds around buildings come into play. All seem to attract avian populations.

For the most part, one also will see a number of different netting types in bird sanctuaries or aviaries, though admittedly, they're designed more to keep humans away from birds than vice versa. It also is used to separate certain aggressive bird species from other species. Additionally, it can be used to interfere with migratory birds, and can convince them to change migration patterns away from airports and the like.

Netting also serves a vital need in keeping down the filth that a large population of birds can leave behind wherever they happen to flock or congregate. Keeping the birds out in the first place, through the use of netting, probably makes much more sense than other control measures, which may require much more physical interaction with the birds.

Other methods of control can also be much more expensive, including trying to seed the population such that it becomes sterile or otherwise population-controlled, using noise cannons or water cannons -- both of which require human staff -- or employing the use of animals to chase away bird populations, which itself presents certain problems.

However, bird netting requires very little maintenance once it's been properly erected, and the overall cost for such material is relatively small, both on a short-term and long-term basis. Today's modern netting products are also very durable, with many making use of some of the latest materials to come up with netting that is both extremely lightweight yet also very strong.

Using bird netting to control aviation populations, then, will mean employing the netting to keep down the incidence of human-to-bird contact, for one. For another, it can pay off greatly over both short and long terms, especially as it pertains to cost of employing other more-involved avian control activities or programs, including adding staff to keep bird populations down. - 33393

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