If you live on a farm remove or burn dead animals and afterbirth quickly.
How to keep buzzards off your roof.
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Vultures are quite stubborn and will return after you scare them away.
Keep in mind vultures do not pose any threat to your health.
To successfully scare birds away from your roof try setting out a decoy owl raven or falcon.
Install steel spike strips on areas of your roof where these birds perch and roost.
How to keep buzzards off of a roof.
The best way to deal with them is to make perching impossible.
Place a taut line over the roosting areas if they are roosting on your house.
Trapping them to relocate them is a bad idea.
Put up a tight wire 8 inches above roof peaks and running parallel to it to prevent buzzards from perching on the roof.
The protruding pointy spikes prevent birds from settling on your rooftop.
You can also play predator or ultrasonic sounds to repel birds.
Spray the buzzards with the water hose whenever they roost in the dead trees or on your roof to encourage them to find alternative roosting areas.
Keep your property as sanitary as possible.
A vulture typically poses little to no problems in the yard but if its presence bothers you its droppings are a mess or it s causing damage to your roof.
Fortunately there are several simple and effective ways to encourage the vultures on your roof to relocate.
You have to be patient.
Try spikes or bird spiders if you want to keep a few birds off the roof or use bird netting to keep a whole flock away.
Shake your trees after dark to encourage the buzzards to move their roosting place.
If trees are the preferred roosting area remove the trees or cover them in bird netting to keep the buzzards and vultures from landing on.
Commonly referred to as buzzards vultures are found throughout the united states and can be destructive when they decide to roost on roofs.
If the line is much higher than 8 inches the buzzards can sit underneath the line.
They can also damage vehicles by scratching paint removing rubber seals and wipers and ripping vinyl seat covers from boats and tractors.
Vultures are attracted to dead animal carcasses and the afterbirth of farm animals.
Turkey vultures can damage homes and commercial buildings by tearing up window caulking roof shingles vent seals rubber roof liners and pool covers.
Obstruct areas where vultures and buzzards roost.
