Pest Management Professional, March 2014
2014 BIRD MANAGEMENT GUIDE The ascent of a bird control business Stuart Aust Contributor W ho would have imagined that when Bird Doctor Nationwide was born 16 years ago from our parent company Bug Doctor Inc wed be providing bird control service throughout the continental U S the Caribbean and more recently proposing bids in Canada and the Middle East Two years ago based on our increasing geographic service footprint we legally changed our name from Bird Doctor to Bird Doctor Nationwide We should have changed it to Bird Doctor Worldwide It began with a bagel It started when we received a call from a bagel shop in Ridgewood N J The shop was a general pest management account but it had developed a bird problem During inspection I noticed pigeons were sitting on top of an exterior window air conditioner and defecating on the windows and ground near the bagel shops entrance Keep in mind that wed never performed bird control up to this point I proposed to clean and sanitize the droppings Our next step was installing bird spikes on top of the air conditioner Our client accepted our proposal We were officially in the bird business Since starting his bird control offerings in 1998 the authors corporate motto has evolved to Have Birds Will Travel Later that year we put our first Bird Doctor truck on the road as an experiment Our Bug Doctor Termite and Pest Control division was growing and I was feeling adventurous I believed based on the work coming in as a result of the advertising on the Bug Doctor vehicles we could pick up some bird work with our new rolling Bird Doctor billboard Within a few years of starting our Bird Doctor Division we were awarded a bird job that was almost six figures The job consisted of installing bird netting to a large portion of the underside of New York Citys Joe DiMaggio highway in conjunction with Donald Trumps West Side high rise project and the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation At the same time we were awarded another large bird job at the Weehawkin N J water tower It felt as if wed won the lottery It opened my eyes to the amount of bird work out there for the taking Stuart Aust standing with one of his Bird Doctor service vehicles rolling billboards BG18 March 2014 Pest Management Professional www mypmp net Photo by Fred Miller fmphotofm com
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