Advantages To Use Of Bird Netting To Keep Bird Populations Under Control

By Steven B.t Smith

Generally speaking, using Bird netting to control avian populations is the recommended method for most any avian control program. Certainly, there are more than a few ways to employ the netting, which is often seen around airports or other areas. Netting is also cost-effective, many times more so than other methods of birth control.

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.

Usually, one will also see netting in aviaries or bird sanctuaries, where it is employed to separate different bird species or to keep humans from interfering with the daily activities of the birds within the aviary or sanctuary. It also can be used to keep migratory bird species and their flocks from congregating in large numbers. It will convince them, in some cases, to reroute their migration patterns as well.

Another favorable aspect to using netting is that controlling the birds and how they congregate also helps to control the filth they may leave in their wake. Less filth means less chance of disease spread between and among the birds and also humans. It can make a lot more sense than many other control measures, which may require more human interaction and staff than relying on netting.

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.

Bird netting, on the other hand, requires relatively little maintenance as long as it's properly installed and looked after from time to time. Besides, it can be quite a bit cheaper than most any other control method, as a matter of fact. Many of today's best netting products also are extremely durable, with some fairly exotic materials used to make them, meaning they'll be both very strong and extremely light in weight.

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. - 32194

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