ADAPT AND OVERCOME

25+ Sparrows Living in a Mall and Causing Problems for Over 10 Years

PARTNER

Mall in Northern Virginia

  • Birds had adapted to living inside a large shopping mall for several years and posed a unique capture challenge for Meridian


OBJECTIVE

Meridian worked with the Operations Coordinator to develop a capture strategy for birds living inside for 10+ years.

  • 25+ sparrows inside for 10+ years causing damage where they had to repaint the railings and ledges once a year due to bird droppings
  • Pizza shop in mall had bad reviews because of bird issues
  • Birds were active day and night

SOLUTION

Meridian devised multiple capture strategies to adapt to different bird behaviors.

  • Live Capture and Removal
  • Multiple capture strategies
  • Day and night
  • Some birds were nocturnal and some active during the daytime

RESULTS

The mall is now bird-free.

  • Utilizing our proven process and patented capture gear where many other companies had tried and failed
  • We used our public relations-friendly process of live capture
  • All eyes were on our team during this process
  • We were successful and demonstrated being above the bar in a very public environment

100%

of the bird population was removed, and the mall is still bird free.

“After observing the different behaviors of birds that had adapted to living inside for so many years, we developed new and innovative capture strategies and equipment to safely and effectively remove birds from an unorthodox environment.”

– Earl Blanchard
Director of Operations

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