Bird control over water presents a unique challenge. Traditional bird deterrents are often designed for land use and aren’t practical for ponds, lakes, shorelines, or liquid containment facilities. Fortunately, Rise Tape offers an effective, durable, and environmentally safe solution for protecting these areas. With its proven durability and real-world success, Rise Tape fills a critical gap in bird deterrence where other methods fall short.
Challenges of Bird Control Over Water
Unlike land-based areas, you can’t drill into or permanently anchor deterrents on liquid surfaces. Any bird control method used must withstand constant exposure to wind, rain, salt, and intense sun. Compounding the challenge, birds like ducks, geese, and other waterfowl are naturally drawn to these areas for nesting, feeding, and resting.
Most conventional deterrents aren’t designed for these conditions:
- Bird spikes and nets are impractical over open water and lack the necessary visual deterrent properties when installed along shorelines.
- Visual scare devices such as regular bird tapes, survey ribbons, or decoys often degrade rapidly in harsh weather.
- Chemical repellents pose risks to aquatic ecosystems and are typically unsuitable.
Property owners are left seeking a durable, humane solution capable of withstanding extreme elements while effectively protecting their waterbodies.
Rise Tape: Built for the Challenge
Rise Tape was engineered for environments exactly like this. Thanks to its impressive breaking strength and weather resistance, Rise Tape can be suspended across large distances without failure. That means Rise Tape isn’t just a lab-tested product, it’s field-proven by actual clients dealing with real-world conditions.
Key benefits
- High breaking strength of 2,500 lbs allows suspension over large spans without snapping.
- Spans over 250 metres (820 feet) in real-world installations with only manageable deflection.
- Durable against wind, rain, salt, and UV exposure.
- Eco-friendly and safe for ponds, lakes, tailings ponds, produced water ponds, containment rings, and shorelines.
- Visual deterrence created by the moving, stitched reflective ribbons discourages waterfowl from landing.
Where to Install Rise Tape
- Shoreline Installation: Set poles or posts along the shore and suspend Rise Tape horizontally to create a visual barrier.
- Across Ponds or Narrow Lakes: Anchor Rise Tape between two fixed points to stretch across the waterbody, deterring birds from landing.
- Dockside Protection: Attach Rise Tape along docks, marinas, or piers to keep geese and other waterfowl from congregating.
- Industrial Applications: Suspend Rise Tape over tailings ponds, produced water ponds, and liquid containment facilities to prevent waterfowl from landing in hazardous areas and avoid costly violations of environmental regulations.
Depending on site conditions, additional supports can be added for even tighter tension if needed.
Rise Tape Advantages
- Protect water features like landscaped ponds, golf course lakes, farm reservoirs, and industrial water storage sites.
- Reduce maintenance and installation costs by preventing bird droppings and nesting damage, and thanks to its ease of installation.
- Long-lasting durability with a life expectancy of 5 to 10 years.
- A humane solution that poses no risk to birds, aquatic life, or sensitive ecosystems.
- Rise Tape can also double as a guardrail, helping prevent falls and improving site safety around waterbodies.
Conclusion
Protecting waterbodies from nuisance birds requires a solution built to endure harsh environments. Rise Tape delivers proven durability, unmatched coverage, and a humane approach to bird control across ponds, lakes, tailings ponds, produced water ponds, containment rings, and shorelines.
If you’re looking for a durable, easy-to-install bird deterrent that works where others can’t, contact us today to learn more about how Rise Tape can help protect your facility or property.
