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Question Of The Week: LEGAL Turkey Vulture Deterrents

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:45:11 +0000

How do I legally deal with turkey buzzards that are damaging my buildings? The birds are federally protected; otherwise, we would have an obvious solution.

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Five Ways Birds Cost Your Facility Money

Anne Vazquez — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:33:34 +0000

This article by Cameron Riddell, president of Bird Barrier America, highlights the threats birds pose to FM budgets.

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NEW SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: Expert Advice From Bird-B-Gone

Anne Vazquez — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:37:13 +0000

The company has added an Ornithologist to its team of bird control specialists to provide online advice.

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NEW PRODUCT FLASH: XCLUDER BLOCKS For Pest Control

Anne Vazquez — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:31:13 +0000

This product from Global Material Technologies fits standard corrugated metal siding to exclude rodents, birds, and bats.

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Cooling Cleanup Volunteers

Anne Vazquez — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:36:33 +0000

Kohler Rental is providing air conditioning and power generation equipment to assist wildlife cleanup in the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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NEW PRODUCT FLASH: Bird-B-Gone Mist

Anne Vazquez — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:32:39 +0000

This hazing system releases a fine mist into the air to deter pest birds from large open spaces.

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FacilityBlog Exclusive: Deterring Birds from Hangars

Heidi Schwartz — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:29:26 +0000

This Web Exclusive is written by Jordan Fox on behalf of Bird-X.

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Carrier Secures Nearly 70% of HVAC Contracts for Beijing Games

Heidi Schwartz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:55:24 +0000

Company systems installed in buildings throughout Beijing facilities.

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2008 Summer Olympics Begin Tonight

Anne Vazquez — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:00:46 +0000

Over the next 16 days, millions of people will converge in the city of Beijing.

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Love Birds But Hate The Mess?

Heidi Schwartz — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:17:00 +0000

Bird Control Expert Shares Top 5 Tips

Cory Gellerstedt of Nixalite of America Inc, a respected authority on humane bird control, offers these tips for eliminating pest birds without harming them:

Analyze the ProblemIdentify the type and number of birds causing the problem. Note the areas they are landing and roosting. Eliminate food and water sources if possible.

Research Available ProductsChoose a reliable company that offers free technical support and installation plans. Don’t make your decision on price alone. Consider maintenance costs, product lifespan and installation costs when comparing price and value.

Consider Using a Combination of Products The

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Prevent disease by controlling roosting birds

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:25:00 +0000

Whether you own a hotel, run a hospital, or manage a public facility, the accumulation of bird feces around your buildings is not likely to attract new business. Certainly, “curb appeal” is lost. But aesthetics aside, bird droppings are simply dangerous–posing health risks to everyone in the vicinity. Entomologist research has found more than 60 transmittable bird-borne diseases and dangerous parasitic organisms which can be fatal to some people and cause others to fall ill.

Where the avian flu typically is ingested by mouth through feces-contaminated water, other bird-borne diseases are ingested by breathing airborne spores of bird feces.

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Office Building Implements Bird Control Strategies

Anne Vazquez — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:34:00 +0000

Bird Barrier products were recently used to combat bird problems at a Southern California office building:

Facility managers spend a lot of time planning their maintenance budgets for each of the properties under their care. They factor in a wide variety of expected problems and generally have a reserve account to tackle new, unforeseen expenses as they occur. However, the facility manager for a Southern California office building recently had a problem that was both unexpected and quickly becoming very costly.

Pigeons and sparrows had decided to exercise their own lease option on the building, nesting both on

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Friday Funny: Grass "tickler" rids Seattle of goose droppings

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:34:00 +0000

More practical than funny, today’s spotlight is on a new product that could soon be sweeping its way into the parks and fields of cities across the country—starting with Seattle, WA. The device is called Goose Goo Gone by Naturesweep, and it’s goal is to remove the waste caused by Canadian Geese, without injuring the birds or the greenery.

Municipalities face a serious challenge in both the migratory and resident geese populations. The birds are attracted to short grasslands, bodies of water, and open sight lines to better see predators. These features are common characteristics of municipal parks, artificial

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The Facility Manager’s Guide To Prevention of Avian Flu and Other Bird-Borne Diseases

Heidi Schwartz — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:25:00 +0000

With a growing climate of fear over the avian flu and talk in the news of a potential pandemic, it is good idea to take a look at practical things facility managers can do to minimize the risk of bird-borne diseases.

How do people get the avian flu? Avian influenza viruses circulate among birds worldwide. Certain birds, particularly water birds (e.g. wild ducks and Canadian geese), act as hosts for influenza viruses by carrying the virus in their intestines and shedding it. Infected birds shed the virus in their saliva, nasal secretions, and feces. Susceptible birds can become infected

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Friday Funny: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a…SHARK???

Heidi Schwartz — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:43:00 +0000

This week’s Friday Funny is another one from the “you have to see it to believe it” file. The world of weird architecture is officially just a little bit weirder. Yes folks, there is a house in Oxford, England, with the back half of a shark protruding through its roof.

Here’s the explanation (complete story found at this link)…

This ordinary home became the centre of world attention, and the headless shark still excites interest today.

Bill Heine commissioned the shark and still owns the house. An American who studied law at Balliol College, he was running two

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Avian Flu…Cleaning Practices Can Help

Anne Vazquez — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:07:00 +0000

With avian flu increasingly in the headlines, many facility professionals are incorporating this threat into their preparedness plans. Cleaning practices are one way to take preventive action. In the following article, Mike Sawchuk, vice president and general manager of Enviro-Solutions, a manufacturer of green cleaning products located in Peterborough, ON Canada, offers some advice.

The Cleaning Industry, Avian Flu, and PreventionAt the recent ISSA/INTERCLEAN Amsterdam tradeshow, one of the seminars discussed how the cleaning industry can react to—and possibly help prevent—the spread of avian (or bird flu), which has the potential of being the next big global health threat.

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Flu Infection Control Tips

Heidi Schwartz — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:50:00 +0000

What should your workplace do to prepare for a possible flu pandemic? Keep informed, develop a plan, and implement public health programs are some of the tips offered to businesses by the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Healthcare Practice Specialty group.

Many occupational safety, health, and environmental practitioners on the front lines of protecting workers have expressed concern over outbreaks of bird/avian flu. The Healthcare Practice Specialty notes that a pandemic is a global disease outbreak; an influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza A virus emerges for which there is little or no immunity in the human

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Avian flu adds to cold and flu season worries

Heidi Schwartz — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:59:00 +0000

More than half the people in a new survey about the upcoming cold and flu season say they are concerned about the possibility of a flu strain jumping from animals to humans. The results represent a big shift from a year ago, when only 1% of respondents to a similar question reported being worried about avian or bird flu. Both surveys were conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of Kimberly-Clark Professional.

Some of the other key findings in the new survey were:• 71% of respondents believe frequent hand washing is the most effective way for people to

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