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Many bird watchers say that they first became interested in nature and bird watching because their parents took the time to share their passion and knowledge with them. Sharing your enthusiasm with your children and their friends and your neighbors can open up their eyes and lead to a lifelong love of birds and the outdoors.

How to Get Involved:

1. Take your children and friends on a bird walk.

Choose your favorite location where there are lots of birds and easy to see. Take time finding birds with binoculars. Look up birds in a field guide, and learn about bird behavior and their particular life styles. Keep a listing and add to your list as you find more birds on other trips.

Prepare before you go so you have a bird guide book and have an idea of the types of birds you will be looking for each trip. Learn as many fun facts about the birds you will be looking for each time. Share stories about the birds as you watch them with your family and friends.

2. Encourage bird-related activities with your children.

All Kids love birds.  Birds are a great way to connect your children and their friends and with the science and nature of the outdoors. Learn to be a resource for your children’s school class. You could volunteer to lead a bird activity in the classroom. Fun activities that engage children in observing birds and studding about science help children learn to enjoy their surroundings. Encourage scientific inquiry by asking, and answering, their own questions about birds.

3. Help your child and their friends set up a bird-feeding station, birdbath, and nesting box.  Read more...

With spring almost upon us, pest birds will be scouting out new locations for nesting and roosting. They can do a lot of damage to your store. Here’s one area of your store that may be particularly vulnerable and what you can do to protect it.

Problem: Store signage—whether it’s constructed of glass, metal, plastic or even a composite material—is attractive to most pest birds.  Signs are usually elevated and often have a number of nooks and crannies where birds can conceal themselves from predators. Birds also like the warmth many signs offer, which comes from the lighted bulbs inside.  During daylight hours, sun filters into glass and plastic and acts like a solarium for birds, keeping them nice and toasty.

When birds build nests in signs, they leave droppings, feathers and other debris in and around them. This material is perfect kindling for starting a fire. But even if they don’t start a fire, these materials are unsightly and block out light. Eventually, the droppings will eat into the signage materials and destroy the sign. Either way, you’re faced with some very expensive repair and cleanup costs.

Associated with birds nesting in signs is the problem of bird droppings right below the sings. This can lead to dangerous slip-and-fall hazards for both employees and customers. The legal liability here can be ruinously expensive.

The Solution: The are a number of ways you can keep pest birds away from your signs. One of the best ways is to use bird netting. This is a far better alternative than bird poisons or BB guns—the former presents a health problem; the latter can leave holes in your sign.

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BIRD•B•GONE KEEPS BIRDS OFF BRIDGES!

Bird•B•Gone, Inc. Bird Control Products keep Pest Birds off of bridges nationwide. Bird•B•Gone, is the leading manufacturer of bird control products in the US. Their products humanly deter pest birds such as pigeons, seagulls and crows from buildings, structures, bridges, highway overpasses and other areas they like to nest and roost.

Bruce Donoho owner of Bird•B•Gone, Inc. says bridges make a perfect nesting and roosting area for birds such as pigeons. They are protected here from interference by people, predators and the elements. The droppings left behind by these birds can erode building materials such as concrete and steel. When asked how to eliminate the birds from bridges and overpasses, Donoho says you must create a physical barrier that keeps the birds from landing. This can be done with bird spikes, bird netting or even shock systems. If the birds have no where to land, they will move on to another area.

Danny Sicurella of Global Bird Management Corp. has used Bird•B•Gone products on many highway bridges throughout Illinois and Arkansas. The Illinois Department of Transportation contracted him to “Bird Proof” highway overpasses that where infested with pest birds such as pigeons and swallows. Danny says that in some cases the feces left behind by the pigeons was 3 – 4 feet deep on the concrete supports. The pigeon feces, over time, will erode the concrete and compromise the support. He used bird netting to secure the bridges from pigeons nesting and roosting. Danny says that protected birds such as swallows are also a big problem on highway overpasses. Once a protected bird takes up “home” on the bridge, it is illegal to do bridge maintenance until the bird has gone. This can really become a safety issue. Danny also used Bird•B•Gone Bird Netting to keep the swallows from making homes on these bridges.  Read more...

A bird is a unique creation of nature and possess the gift of flight an intelligence. are many species of birds in this world, spread over to different continents across the globe. Many of us are bird lovers and love to spend our time with these birds. In an effort to stay close to the birds, we love to keep them in our house and backyards, so that we can fully enjoy their company and keep them cared and nurtured. To keep the birds out of danger and to give proper comfort to them it is always good to have these birds in bird cages. There are many good and suitable bird cagesavailable in the market and most of them are available at an affordable price.

Today it is very easy to make purchase of these cages of birds and other accessories as there are many websites that have huge data of bird supplies. You can get some of the most beautiful cages, feeding utensils, toys and other accessories of the birds. To keep your favorite bird in good care you need to buy a high quality cage for them and there are many different types of bird cagesavailable. There are Stainless steelbird cages; Flight Cages and Prevue bird cagesand few more types of cages where you can keep your birds. There are two types of Stainless Steel bird cages like, Stainless Steel Playtop Bird Cages and Stainless Steel Dome Top Bird Cages. A&E bird cage with a square shape whose height is 68 inch is ideal for Amazons, Congo, Timnah Grey, Cockatoos and for many more kinds of birds.  Read more...

Bird feeding is the activity of feeding wild birds, often by means of a bird feeder. Bird feeding has been a well-loved American tradition. Feeding birds is beneficial to wild birds individually by providing easy food sources during severe winters and harsh migration periods. It also helps birds collectively by fostering our understanding of and affection for them. Here, now, are some tips on how to feed wild birds.

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Number one: Start with the basics. If you want to attract a large number of birds to your yard, then you can place black-oil sunflower in a tubular feeder. Remember to place your bird feeders in places where you can easily and frequently see the birds you are feeding.

Number two: Add additional types of feeders and seeds. Doing so will attract more species of wild birds to your yard. In a tube, hopper, and platform feeders, use a mixture of black-oil sunflower, hulled sunflower, and whole peanuts. Keep in mind that the bird species in your yard change with the season of the year. The birds visiting your feeders during summer may not be the same ones that visit them during winter. Therefore, it is important that you provide the feeders and the food that are best suited to your seasonal suite of birds.

Number three: Use alternative foods and water. Although a traditional pick of bird foods will attract wild birds, it may also be a good idea to add suet, fruits, mealworms, nectar, and water in order to attract other species of birds that are not attracted to traditional offerings.

Number four: Make your yard bird-friendly. Remember to keep the birds safe – from window collisions or even predators like outdoor cats. Number five: Enjoy. Have fun, especially with trying to perfect the steps on how to feed wild birds.  Read more...