Our buildings provide warmth, shelter moisture and food for birds. Birds can transmit disease even particularly nasty ones like SARS, and spread disease such as salmonella.
We perform a thorough inspection and provide you with advice on the best and most effective option. Generally it is preferable to deter birds rather than trap, poison or kill them, the options available are; Netting, Spikes, Bird Slide, Bird Shock, Bird Wire or Hot Silicone.
Below is a list of diseases that can be transmitted from birds:
Chlamydiosis
Transmitted by birds such as pigeons. Although more like a flu-type disease, it should be noted that fatalities can occur just as with other influenza viruses.
Histoplasmosis
Is a respiratory disease that may be fatal. It results from a fungus growing in dried bird droppings.
Cryptococcosis
This is a very serious illness. It begins as a lung infection but can progress to the meninges of the brain causing Meningitis.
Campylobacter
Brought about by the contamination of food sources usually by corvids such as magpies which have been infected by carrion. This can result in extreme forms of gastroenteritis.
Salmonellosis
Often occurs as “food poisoning” and can be traced to pigeons, starlings and sparrows. The disease bacteria are found in bird droppings; dust from droppings can be sucked through ventilators and air conditioners, contaminating food and cooking surfaces in restaurants, homes and food processing plants.
E-Coli
Contracted orally by ingesting food or water contaminated with a pathogenic strain shed by an infected person or animal.