A Pest IT course, built with Peter McCarthy, on bird jobs going back to 1994.
The Bird Management Course
Most people arrive here with a job on Thursday, not a study plan. So this page starts with your week, not our syllabus: pick the door that sounds like the job in front of you. The Bird Management Course teaches you to read a site, name the bird and pick the system the pressure calls for: everything we have learned keeping birds off buildings, crops and solar. It is written for the people doing the work and the people paying for it. Every lesson is named on this page, so you can see the shape of it before you give it your time.
The course is a Pest IT build, developed with Peter McCarthy, and it draws on a field record of bird jobs across Australia and New Zealand going back to 1994. Winged Menace: A Guide to Pest Bird Management (2021), by Peter McCarthy and Dr Sali Bache, informed the framework, and lessons cite it where it did. Where the field record has moved past the page, the lesson follows the field, and where Peter is quoted, the lesson says so. On law, chemicals and animal welfare, the lessons point you at the current source, because those move.
Modules
Know Your Birds and the Law
You name the bird in front of you, read how committed it is to the site, and know which permissions and protected-species questions to settle with your state regulator before you touch anything. Lessons 1 to 18.
Shutting Them Out: Exclusion and Netting
You walk a face or a courtyard, choose the mesh and the fixings the substrate and the species call for, and turn a site walk into a component list. Lessons 19 to 25.
Moving Them On: Deterrence Systems
You match spikes, wire, shock track or visual deterrence to the ledge in front of you, and you can say which one will hold and why. Lessons 26 to 33.
Birds and Solar
You scope and quote panel exclusion on a home array or a commercial one, work to the access and height requirements the site sets, and show the owner what the birds under the panels are doing to it. Lessons 34 to 37.
Trapping and Population Management
You judge when trapping earns its place in a program, know the welfare and legal ground it sits on, and explain where it fits alongside the rest of the work. Lessons 38 to 42.
Monitoring and Reporting: Proving the Job Held
You set up monitoring on a site and hand the client a report that shows what is happening to the problem. Lessons 43 to 46.
Designing the Whole System
You design a complete bird program for a commercial building, a food site, a farm or a transport corridor, and price it as one piece of work. Lessons 47 to 52.
Built from the same thinking as the course, free, and live now.
Bird Job Decision Card
Walks a live bird job with you: how committed the birds are, and what the site is asking for.
AvePro Netting Job Builder
Turns a measured face into a component list you can quote from, part by part.ew.
Lesson one: reading bird pressure
The model the whole course runs on, with the interactive pressure read built into the lesson.
