{ "store": "Bird Spikes Company", "website": "https://birdspikes.co.nz", "currency": "NZD", "count": 25, "products": [ { "id": "solar-panel-bird-proofing", "sku": "solar-panel-bird-proofing", "title": "Solar Panel Bird Proofing, 30 m roll", "slug": "solar-panel-bird-proofing", "price": 149, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "netting", "category_label": "Netting", "tags": [ "netting", "solar", "dropship" ], "colors": [ "Black" ], "materials": [ "Galvanised welded steel with a black PVC coating" ], "dimensions": "30 m roll, with a half inch by half inch mesh, and 70 stainless steel clips", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/dropship-images/netting/solar-panel-bird-proofing/main-solar-panel-bird-proofing.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/dropship-images/netting/solar-panel-bird-proofing/solar-panel-bird-proofing-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/dropship-images/netting/solar-panel-bird-proofing/solar-panel-bird-proofing-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/dropship-images/netting/solar-panel-bird-proofing/solar-panel-bird-proofing-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/dropship-images/netting/solar-panel-bird-proofing/solar-panel-bird-proofing-4.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/dropship-images/netting/solar-panel-bird-proofing/solar-panel-bird-proofing-5.jpg" ], "description_short": "PVC coated galvanised steel mesh with 70 stainless clips, per 30 m roll. It closes the one space on a roof that birds like best.", "description": "Why the gap matters\n\nThe space between a solar array and the roof is sheltered, dry, warm and completely out of reach. On most buildings it is the single most attractive nesting spot available, which is why pigeons find it within a season of the panels going up.\n\nThe reason to close it is not the mess. It is the wiring. Nesting material packs against cable runs, pigeons strip insulation and pull at anything loose, and blocked airflow keeps the panels hotter than they should be, which costs you output.\n\nMesh, not netting\n\nThis gap is a permanent structural space with a hard edge, so a rigid welded mesh clipped to the panel frame stays exactly where you put it. A soft net sags into the space and becomes something a bird can stand on, which is worse than nothing.\n\nThe half inch opening is chosen deliberately: small enough to keep birds and rodents out, open enough that leaf litter does not build up behind it.\n\nNothing goes through the roof\n\nThe mesh clips to the panel frame with the stainless clips supplied. No drilling, no penetration of the waterproofing, and it can be unclipped again if the array ever needs work.\n\nMeasure the perimeter\n\nThis is the mistake people make when ordering. You are running a strip around the edge of the array, not sheeting the roof, so measure the perimeter. Thirty metres covers a typical domestic array with room to spare.\n\nTwo things to sort out before you order\n\nCheck the panel warranty and your installer's terms. Most treat clip on frame mesh as perfectly fine, and it is a five minute question rather than an expensive discovery.\n\nBe honest about access. An array is a live electrical installation on a slippery surface at height. The fitting itself is simple; the situation is not. If you are not comfortable up there, an installer will fit this exact kit and it will cost less than you fear.\n\nIf something is already nesting\n\nDeal with that first, and if it is a protected native bird wait until the nest is finished with. Wet the material down rather than sweeping it dry, wear gloves and a mask, and bag it.\n\nAfterwards\n\nCheck the clips after the first winter. Everything on a roof loosens once, and a mesh with two clips missing is a door.", "llm_summary": "Solar Panel Bird Proofing sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz, NZD 149 per 30 m roll. Heavy duty galvanised welded steel mesh with a black PVC coating, half inch by half inch openings, supplied with 70 stainless steel fastener clips. It closes the gap between a solar array and the roof, which is the most attractive nesting space on a building because it is sheltered, dry and warm. The mesh CLIPS TO THE PANEL FRAME rather than being fixed through the roof, so nothing penetrates the waterproofing. The damage a nest does is to the WIRING - packed nesting material against cable runs, stripped insulation, and heat retention from blocked airflow - rather than the mess. Rigid welded mesh is used rather than a soft net because a net sags into the gap and becomes a perch. CAUTIONS on the page: an array is a live electrical installation on a slippery surface, so an installer is the right choice for anyone not comfortable at height and around DC wiring; and the panel warranty and installer terms should be checked before clipping anything to the frame. Coverage is measured around the PERIMETER of the array, not its area. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/solar-panel-bird-proofing/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/solar-panel-bird-proofing/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/solar-panel-bird-proofing.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 169 }, { "id": "anti-bird-spikes", "sku": "ss-09", "title": "Bird Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "anti-bird-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "bird-spikes", "category_label": "Bird Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "general", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/main-anti-bird-spikes.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes-3.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes-4.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes-5.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes-6.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes/anti-bird-spikes-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "304 stainless steel pins on a clear polycarbonate base, sold by the 50 cm with no minimum. If you are not sure which of our spikes to order, start here.", "description": "Start with the surface, not the bird\n\nAlmost everyone arrives at a bird spike page having decided which bird they have. It is the wrong first question. The strip does not know what species is standing on it; it removes a flat surface, and whether that works depends on how wide the surface is and how big the bird is.\n\nSo measure first. A ledge up to about 150 millimetres wide takes one row. Anything wider takes two, set near the front and back edges rather than doubled up in the middle. A ledge over about 400 millimetres is really a small flat roof and you are into netting territory.\n\nThen check the bird is big enough\n\nSpikes suit birds that need to land, turn around and settle: feral pigeons, gulls, mynas, starlings. They are far less reliable on small birds, which simply drop between the pins and sit there. If you are dealing with sparrows and the ledge is wide, buy netting instead and we would rather say so on the product page than after you have paid for it.\n\nWork out how many strips\n\nEach strip is 500 millimetres. Measure the run in metres, double it, round up. The most common mistake in this whole category is stopping half a metre short of the end of a ledge, because that half metre is exactly where the birds go.\n\nChoose the fixing before you order\n\nOn timber, screws. On masonry, painted metal or plastic, a UV stabilised exterior silicone. The base carries both a glue channel and fixing holes so either works, and the thing that decides whether a strip is still there in five years is not the strip, it is whether the surface was clean and dry when you fixed it.\n\nGet the sequence right\n\nClean the surface, let it dry, dry fit the run to check it divides sensibly, cut the last piece, then fix. If there is an active nest anywhere on the run, stop: under the Wildlife Act 1953 a protected bird's nest may not be interfered with, and the sensible plan is to treat the surface after the season rather than during it.\n\nWhat spikes will not do\n\nThey will not stop birds using the ledge next door, they will not close a cavity, and they will not change why the birds are there. If someone nearby is feeding them, the flock stays and you are simply choosing which surfaces it uses.", "llm_summary": "Bird Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. The standard stainless steel spike strip: 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long and 23 mm wide, 115 mm pins at 1.3 mm diameter giving 70 mm of protected width, sold per 50 cm strip with no minimum order and butted end to end for any run length. NZD 12 per strip. Fitted to ledges, window sills, parapets, roof edges, gutters, fence rails, beams and signage with UV stabilised silicone adhesive, screws, nails or cable ties. It works by removing the flat surface a bird needs to land and turn on, so it suits medium and large birds and is a poor choice for very small birds, which can settle between the pins; netting is the better answer there. A surface wider than about 150 mm needs two rows. This is the same kind of strip sold on the bird named pages of this site, which differ in placement advice rather than in product. New Zealand law: native birds are absolutely protected under the Wildlife Act 1953, including their nests and eggs, so surfaces are treated outside the nesting season; house sparrows, starlings, common mynas and feral pigeons are introduced and are not protected. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/anti-bird-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/anti-bird-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/anti-bird-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "fence-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-04", "title": "Fence Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "fence-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "bird-spikes", "category_label": "Bird Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "fence", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/fence-spikes/main-fence-spikes.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/fence-spikes/fence-spikes-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/fence-spikes/fence-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/fence-spikes/fence-spikes-3.jpg" ], "description_short": "Stainless strips for the top rail of a boundary fence, the capping of a block wall and the flat top of a gate, where the traffic is cats, possums and birds using it as a route.", "description": "A fence is a road\n\nThe thing that separates a fence job from a ledge job is that nothing on a fence is trying to stay there. Cats, possums and birds are passing through, which means a partly treated fence produces a detour rather than a result. Ten metres of spiking with a five metre gap in it is a gate.\n\nFind where they get up\n\nBefore you measure anything, find the access points. A wheelie bin against the fence, a woodpile, a low shed roof, a compost bay, an overhanging branch. Moving the bin is free and often does more than twenty strips.\n\nThen look at the pinch points on the route itself: a corner, a post top, the section beside the gate. Treating those is usually enough, and it is a great deal cheaper than the whole boundary.\n\nTalk to your neighbour\n\nA boundary fence usually belongs to two households and your fence agreement may require agreement before anything is fixed to it. Beyond the legal position, the strip is visible from their side and at eye level, so the conversation is worth having before the purchase rather than after the installation.\n\nBlunt animal deterrents are an easy conversation. Anything that could injure an animal is not, and is not what we sell.\n\nFixing\n\nTimber takes screws, and stainless screws are worth the extra because ordinary ones streak rust down the boards within a season. Block wall capping is easier with an exterior adhesive than with a drill. Gate tops take either, but keep the run clear of where a hand goes when the gate is opened.\n\nWhat this is not\n\nThese are blunt tipped animal deterrents. They are not anti intruder spikes, they are not sold for that, and security spiking on a boundary carries duties that a bird deterrent does not. If your problem is people, this is the wrong page and probably the wrong shop.\n\nAfterwards\n\nClear the leaf litter out once a year, and cut back whatever is dropping onto the fence. Debris packed into a strip is a surface again.", "llm_summary": "Fence Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Stainless steel spike strips fixed along the top rail of a boundary fence, the capping of a block wall or the top of a gate. 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. A fence top is a ROUTE rather than a perch, so a partly treated fence just creates a detour: treat the whole run, or identify and treat the two or three points where animals get up. On a New Zealand fence line the traffic is typically cats, possums and birds, and the same strip discourages all three; possums are an introduced pest and are not protected, while native birds are protected under the Wildlife Act 1953. The pins are BLUNT TIPPED and this is a deterrent rather than an anti intruder product; it is not sold or suitable for security spiking against people. A shared boundary fence usually belongs to two parties, so agreement before fixing is sensible. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/fence-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/fence-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/fence-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "gutter-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-05", "title": "Gutter Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "gutter-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "bird-spikes", "category_label": "Bird Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "gutter", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/gutter-spikes/main-gutter-spikes.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/gutter-spikes/gutter-spikes-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/gutter-spikes/gutter-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/gutter-spikes/gutter-spikes-3.jpeg" ], "description_short": "Stainless strips for the outer lip of a spouting run, the fascia line and the top of a downpipe bracket, where a nest costs more than the spikes do.", "description": "The real cost is not the mess\n\nA bird sitting on your spouting is untidy. A bird nesting in it is a blockage, and a blockage in a New Zealand downpour is water over the fascia, down the wall and eventually into the cavity. That is the reason this is worth doing, and it is why the timing matters: the useful moment is before the nesting season, not during it.\n\nFit it to the lip, not the fascia\n\nThe single most common mistake is spiking the fascia board above the gutter. It protects the fascia. It does nothing at all about the gutter, because the bird lands on the outer lip and hops down inside.\n\nThe outer lip is the position. Facing up and slightly outward, running the full length of the run.\n\nWork around the hardware\n\nBrackets, joiners and downpipe outlets all interrupt a run. Cut the strip and step around them; a hacksaw goes through the polycarbonate base in seconds. Never run a strip over an outlet.\n\nRainwater tanks\n\nA lot of New Zealand properties collect off the roof. This strip is stainless steel and polycarbonate with nothing to leach, so it does not change what is going into the tank. If you fix with silicone, let it cure fully before the next rain rather than the same afternoon.\n\nWhat it does not do\n\nIt does not stop leaves. If your blockages are botanical you want a gutter guard, which is a different product and not one we sell. Saying so here is cheaper for both of us than a return.\n\nIt also will not stop a determined sparrow, which can get into a gutter from the roof side rather than the lip. On a persistent small bird problem, net the area instead.\n\nDoing it safely\n\nGutter work is ladder work, and a full run means moving a ladder a dozen times. On anything above single storey, or on a wet day, this is a contractor job. The strips will still be there next weekend.", "llm_summary": "Gutter Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Stainless steel spike strips fitted to the outer lip of spouting, the fascia line or downpipe brackets to stop birds landing and nesting in a gutter run. 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. The value is preventing a nest that blocks a downpipe and forces overflow down the wall, rather than the mess itself. Fitted to the OUTER LIP rather than the fascia above, because the lip is the perch a bird uses before dropping in. Steps around brackets and outlets and cuts with a hacksaw. Contains nothing that leaches, so it is suitable above a rainwater collection tank; silicone should be allowed to cure before rain. It does NOT stop leaf litter: a gutter guard is the product for that and this store does not sell one. New Zealand law: native birds and their nests are protected under the Wildlife Act 1953, so a gutter is treated outside the nesting season. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/gutter-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/gutter-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/gutter-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "plastic-pest-spikes", "sku": "HardPlastic-01", "title": "Pest Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "plastic-pest-spikes", "price": 10, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "bird-spikes", "category_label": "Bird Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "plastic", "general" ], "colors": [ "Black" ], "materials": [ "Injection moulded plastic" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, butted end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes/main-plastic-pest-spikes.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes-4.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/bird-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes/plastic-pest-spikes-6.jpg" ], "description_short": "One piece moulded plastic, sold by the 50 cm. The one to choose when the run is long, the budget matters or you want the spikes to disappear.", "description": "They do the same job\n\nBoth strips work the same way: they remove the flat surface an animal needs to stand on. On an ordinary ledge, sill or fence rail, either will do the job and the choice is about the site rather than about quality.\n\nChoose moulded plastic when\n\nThe run is long and the budget decides how much of it gets done. Covering all of a fifty metre boundary in plastic beats covering half of it in stainless, because half a job is a detour.\n\nThe strip is at eye level and you would rather not see it. There are no pins catching the light, and black on a dark fence is close to invisible from a few metres.\n\nYou want no assembly. This arrives as one moulded piece.\n\nChoose stainless when\n\nThe site is coastal. Salt decides a lot of exterior choices in New Zealand and this is one of them.\n\nSomething heavy will lean on it. A possum putting its full weight on a strip is a different load case from a pigeon landing on one.\n\nThe job is being specified for a commercial client, where a material specification is part of the paperwork.\n\nFixing is the same decision either way\n\nScrews in timber. Exterior adhesive or double sided tape on masonry, painted metal and plastic. Cable ties on railings and pipework. The surface has to be clean and dry before adhesive touches it, and that step, rather than the strip, is what decides whether it is still there in five years.\n\nQuantity\n\nEach strip is 500 millimetres. Measure the run, double it, round up, and do not stop short of the end.\n\nOne thing plastic does better\n\nYou can paint it. On a coloured fence or a heritage frontage where the client wants the deterrent invisible, a strip painted to match is genuinely unobtrusive in a way steel pins are not.", "llm_summary": "Plastic Pest Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. One piece injection moulded plastic spike strip, 500 mm long, no assembly, NZD 10 per 50 cm strip with no minimum order. Fitted to ledges, window sills, fence rails, shed roofs, railings and sign tops with screws, exterior double sided tape, adhesive or cable ties, and cut with a hacksaw. Chosen over the stainless strip for cost per metre and for a lower profile where the run is at eye level; the stainless strip is the better choice for coastal exposure and for anywhere a heavy animal puts weight on it. It works by removing the flat surface an animal needs to stand on, is blunt tipped and is not a trap. Placement beats quantity: a treated rail beside an untreated post is a step rather than a barrier. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/plastic-pest-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/plastic-pest-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/plastic-pest-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 14 }, { "id": "cat-spikes", "sku": "hard-plastic-02", "title": "Cat Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "cat-spikes", "price": 10, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "cat-spikes", "category_label": "Cat Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "cat", "plastic", "fence" ], "colors": [ "Black" ], "materials": [ "Injection moulded plastic" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, butted end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/main-cat-spikes.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-4.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-6.jpg" ], "description_short": "Blunt moulded strips for the top of a fence, a wall or a gate. They make the route uncomfortable enough to be worth avoiding, and they cannot injure.", "description": "What this actually does\n\nA cat walking a fence is following a route between two places it wants to be. The strip does not hurt it and is not designed to: the points are blunt, and what happens is that the surface becomes unpleasant to stand on and the cat picks a different way round.\n\nMost cats change their route within a night or two.\n\nTreat the route, not the fence\n\nThe mistake is to treat the panel where you see the cat. Look instead at where it gets up: a wheelie bin, a woodpile, a low shed roof, a compost bay, a branch. Move the bin and you may not need the spikes at all.\n\nThen treat the pinch points on the route, including the post tops, which everyone forgets and which are a favourite standing spot.\n\nThe neighbour conversation\n\nBoundary fences usually belong to two households, and your fence agreement may require agreement before anything is fixed to one. It is also visible from their side, at their eye level.\n\nBlunt cat spikes are an easy conversation to have because there is nothing to argue about: they cannot injure an animal. That is worth leading with.\n\nFixing\n\nScrews in timber, stainless ones if you would rather not have rust streaks. Exterior adhesive on block capping. On gates, keep the run clear of where a hand goes.\n\nWhere we would think twice\n\nA deck rail is somewhere people put their hands. A low fence in a garden with small children is somewhere hands and faces end up. The strip is blunt and contact is uncomfortable rather than harmful, but placement is still worth thinking about.\n\nWhat it will not fix\n\nIt closes the fence route. A cat coming under a gate, over a low front wall or through a hedge is unaffected, so walk the whole boundary before deciding how many strips to buy.\n\nAnd if it is your own cat, it will find another way in. You may prefer the way it was using.", "llm_summary": "Cat Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. One piece injection moulded plastic strip with BLUNT points, 500 mm long, no assembly, NZD 10 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. Fixed along a timber fence rail with screws, or to block capping or a gate top with an exterior adhesive. A cat uses a fence as a ROUTE rather than a perch, so a partly treated fence produces a detour rather than a result: treat the whole run, or identify and treat the two or three points where cats get up. The points are blunt and cannot injure; the strip works by making a surface unpleasant to stand on. A shared boundary fence usually belongs to two households, so agreement before fixing is sensible. If cats are entering a garden by other routes - a gap under a gate, a low front wall - the strip closes the fence route only. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. 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One tube covers 3 linear metres. The answer for corbels, cornices and anything shaped.", "description": "The shape of the surface decides\n\nOn a straight ledge, a spike strip is cheaper, permanent and needs almost no maintenance. It wins on cost and it wins on longevity.\n\nOn a corbel, a moulded cornice, a curved beam or a shaped sill, a strip simply will not sit. That is what gel is for, and it is why most real buildings need both products rather than a choice between them.\n\nApplying it\n\nA steady bead along the middle of the surface, in one pass, with a standard caulking gun held at a consistent angle. Three linear metres per cartridge assumes a bead. Laying it on thick does not make it work harder, it just collects dust faster.\n\nClean the surface first. Scrape off droppings, wash, dry. Gel over a dirty surface lifts with the dirt.\n\nWhat it is not\n\nIt is not a trap and it is not an adhesive designed to catch anything. Birds find the surface unpleasant underfoot and stop using it. Apply it as a bead rather than a layer, and do not use it where small birds are nesting close by.\n\nIts honest weakness\n\nIt is not permanent. Dust, grit and pollen land in it and eventually form a crust, and a crusted gel is a shelf. On a clean sheltered surface that takes a long time. On a dusty roadside parapet, plan on it as a seasonal job and put a note in the diary rather than discovering it when the birds come back.\n\nTest it with a finger where you can reach. Tacky is working. Dry and dusty is done.\n\nTwo cautions\n\nIt is sticky, so it belongs where nobody will put a hand: not on a handrail, not on a sill people lean on, not within a child's reach.\n\nOn porous or historic stone, test a small patch first. A petroleum based product can mark, and heritage listings often restrict what may be applied to a facade at all.\n\nWhere it is at its best\n\nOrnate frontages where spikes would be visually unacceptable, and narrow mouldings where small birds settle and a strip has nowhere to go. From the ground it is effectively invisible, which is the reason architects specify it.", "llm_summary": "Bird Proof Gel sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. A clear, sticky, non toxic petroleum based gel applied as a BEAD with a standard caulking gun (gun NOT included), covering 3 linear metres per cartridge. Two sellable lines: a single tube at NZD 70 and a 3 pack covering 10 linear metres at NZD 179. Its purpose is surfaces a spike strip cannot sit on - corbels, moulded cornices, curved beams, shaped sills - so it is complementary to spikes rather than an alternative: a straight ledge is cheaper and more permanent with a strip. Effectively invisible from below, which is why it suits buildings where spikes would be visually unacceptable. Birds find the surface unpleasant underfoot; nothing about it traps or injures. HONEST LIMITATION: it is NOT permanent. Dust, grit and pollen form a crust over time and a crusted gel is just a shelf, so it is inspected each season and reapplied where needed, sooner on a dusty roadside site. CAUTIONS: it is sticky, so it must not go where a person puts a hand (handrails, leaned-on sills, within a child's reach), and on porous or historic stone a small test patch should be done first because a petroleum based product can mark. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. 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Cheapest way to cover a lot of ground, and honest about habituation.", "description": "Coverage per dollar is the point\n\nOne roll cut into fifty centimetre strips gives you around a hundred and eighty flashing points. No single object competes with that, and on an orchard row or a berry patch the number of points matters more than the strength of any one deterrent.\n\nHow to tie it\n\nLeave enough free length to twist and flutter. Tie it high enough that the crop does not stop it moving. Vary the heights, because a row all at one level reads as a line rather than as movement.\n\nTie through a punched hole rather than stapling. Staples tear out.\n\nIt needs wind and daylight\n\nBoth. In a sheltered corner or under cover it is bunting. That is worth checking before you cut a whole roll up.\n\nThe habituation problem, honestly\n\nBirds under real feeding pressure will work out within a week or two that the flashing thing has never once hurt them. After that it is decoration.\n\nThe fix is not more tape. It is rotation: move the strips, add a few discs at the pressure points, and put it up when the fruit colours rather than in early spring. A deterrent that appears at the right moment is worth several that have been there since August.\n\nMaintenance\n\nStrips twist into ropes in wind, and a tape wound tight around itself has stopped flashing. Retie them. Expect to after any windy week.\n\nReplace strips that have gone dull. A season of sun and dust takes the shine off, and the shine is the product.\n\nWhich pack\n\nOne roll for a garden. Three for a decent orchard row or a boat. Ten for a commercial block, where it works out cheapest per roll.\n\nWhere it cannot compete\n\nA roosting habit. Pigeons on a parapet, starlings in a gutter, mynas on a beam. Those are barrier problems and the strips beat the tape every time. Keep the tape for open ground.", "llm_summary": "Bird Reflective Tape sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Extra thick holographic PET tape on 90 m x 5 cm rolls, cut into strips and tied where they can move freely. Three sellable lines: a single roll at NZD 27, a 3 roll pack at NZD 69 and a 10 roll pack at NZD 190. Used in orchards, over crops, in gardens, on carports, boats, docks, patios and balconies. It requires WIND and DAYLIGHT and is decorative in a sheltered or covered spot. One 90 m roll cut into 50 cm strips gives roughly 180 flashing points, which is why coverage per dollar is its advantage. Tying technique matters: leave free length to twist, tie high enough to clear the crop, and vary the heights so it reads as movement rather than a line. HONEST LIMITATION stated on the page: this is a SCARE product, not a barrier, and birds under feeding pressure habituate within a week or two; the answer is rotation and seasonal use rather than more tape. It cannot compete with a barrier on a ROOSTING habit - pigeons on a parapet, starlings in a gutter, mynas on a beam are spike jobs. No effectiveness percentage is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/bird-repellent-tape/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/bird-repellent-tape/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/bird-repellent-tape-single-roll.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "fake-owl-decoy", "sku": "fake-owl-decoy", "title": "Fake Owl Decoy", "slug": "fake-owl-decoy", "price": 79, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "deterrents-category", "category_label": "Deterrents", "tags": [ "deterrent", "decoy", "garden" ], "colors": [ "Natural owl markings with reflective eyes" ], "materials": [ "Moulded plastic with fade resistant, water resistant paint" ], "dimensions": "Free standing, with a spring mounted head", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/fake-owl-decoy/main-fake-owl-decoy.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/fake-owl-decoy/fake-owl-decoy-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/fake-owl-decoy/fake-owl-decoy-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/fake-owl-decoy/fake-owl-decoy-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/fake-owl-decoy/fake-owl-decoy-4.jpg" ], "description_short": "A weatherproof plastic owl with a spring mounted head that turns in the wind. It buys you time and attention. Move it, or the birds will simply file it under furniture.", "description": "Why most plastic owls fail\n\nThey get put on a post and left there. Within two or three weeks the birds have watched it not move, not hunt and not react, and it has become an ornament. Some of them will sit on it, which is the clearest possible feedback.\n\nEverything below is about avoiding that.\n\nMove it weekly\n\nThis is the whole trick and it takes about a minute. A new position each week keeps the object novel, and novelty is the only thing a decoy has.\n\nPut it where the wind reaches\n\nThe head is spring mounted so it turns in a breeze, and that movement is what separates it from a garden gnome. A sheltered corner defeats it. A post, a roof edge, a fence corner or the end of a jetty all work.\n\nUse it for a season, not a year\n\nBring it out when the problem starts and put it away when the fruit is picked or the birds move on. A decoy that is always present is teaching them something all year.\n\nWhat it is good at\n\nOpen spaces and mild problems. A vegetable garden, a deck, a jetty, a small orchard, a barn. Somewhere birds are passing through and deciding whether to stop, rather than somewhere they have lived for three years.\n\nIt is also good in combination. An owl plus a few reflective discs plus some tape gives a bird three different things to be uncertain about, and that lasts longer than any one of them.\n\nWhat it is not good at\n\nAn established roost. Pigeons that have used a parapet for years will not be moved by a plastic owl, and nor will gulls, who are bold and habituate fast. Those need a barrier.\n\nIt does nothing at all to possums or rats. No decoy does.\n\nKeeping it looking like an owl\n\nWash the dust off a couple of times a year, check the head still turns freely, and secure it somewhere exposed so it does not end up in the neighbour's garden.", "llm_summary": "Fake Owl Decoy sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. A moulded plastic owl with reflective eyes and a SPRING MOUNTED HEAD that rotates in the wind, finished in fade and water resistant paint for indoor or outdoor use, NZD 79. Used in gardens, orchards, on decks, jetties, in barns and on rooflines. HONEST LIMITATION stated plainly on the page: a decoy works on a bird's caution and caution WEARS OFF, so it must be MOVED about weekly and is best used seasonally rather than left out all year; a decoy left in one spot becomes scenery and birds will perch on it. It suits mild problems and open spaces, and is a SUPPLEMENT rather than a solution where birds have an established habit on a ledge, gutter or sign, which are barrier problems solved by spikes, netting or gel. Most effect on small and medium birds with real predators; less on gulls; none on possums or rats. No effectiveness percentage is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/fake-owl-decoy/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/fake-owl-decoy/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/fake-owl-decoy.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 99 }, { "id": "hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs", "sku": "bird-discs", "title": "Bird Deterrent Discs, per 53 cm hanging disc", "slug": "hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs", "price": 10, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "deterrents-category", "category_label": "Deterrents", "tags": [ "deterrent", "reflective", "garden" ], "colors": [ "Mirrored" ], "materials": [ "Double sided mirrored disc with a smooth edge and a hanging hook" ], "dimensions": "53 cm hanging length including the hook", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs/main-hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs-3.png" ], "description_short": "Double sided mirrored discs that spin in the wind. For open spaces, fruit trees and boat covers, and honest about the fact that birds do get used to them.", "description": "Understand the category first\n\nThere are two kinds of bird product: barriers and scare devices. A barrier removes a surface, so there is nothing to get used to. A scare device relies on the bird deciding something is a risk, and birds are good at working out that a risk which never materialises is not one.\n\nThese discs are a scare device. That is not a criticism, it is an instruction manual.\n\nThe three rules\n\nMove them. Every couple of weeks is enough. A disc that has hung in the same spot for two months has become part of the tree.\n\nAdd rather than replace. When pressure rises, put more up at the point the birds come in rather than moving the same three around.\n\nUse them seasonally. Take them down when the fruit is picked. Birds that spend the winter learning to ignore them will start next spring already used to them.\n\nSiting\n\nThey need wind and daylight, so hang them on the outside of a tree rather than buried in it, high enough that the crop does not stop them turning. Vary the heights: a row all at one level reads as a line rather than as movement.\n\nWatch where the reflection lands. Flashing light travels further than people expect and a row along a boundary can be a genuine nuisance to a neighbour.\n\nWhat they do that spikes cannot\n\nThey cover a volume. A run of discs through a fruit tree is protecting the whole tree, not a line along the top of a fence. That is why they pair well with netting on a crop, where the net is the barrier and the discs discourage landing on it.\n\nWhere they will not compete\n\nAny established roosting habit. Pigeons on a parapet, starlings in a gutter, mynas on a beam. Those are barrier problems, and a strip at twelve dollars will outperform any number of discs.\n\nMaintenance\n\nWipe them when they dull. A dusty mirror reflects almost nothing, and reflecting is the entire job.", "llm_summary": "Hanging Bird Deterrent Discs sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. A 53 cm double sided mirrored disc on a hook that spins in the wind and throws moving light, sold per disc at NZD 10 with no minimum order, with light assembly and instructions included. Used in gardens, orchards, over crops, on carports, boats, docks, patios and balconies - anywhere with NO surface to fix a spike to. It requires WIND and DAYLIGHT to work at all and is decorative in a sheltered or covered spot. HONEST LIMITATION stated on the page: this is a scare product, not a barrier, and birds habituate to a risk that never materialises. The store's advice is to move the discs every couple of weeks, add more as pressure rises, and take them down out of season. They cover a VOLUME rather than a line, which is why they pair with netting on a crop and with spike strips on nearby ledges. Both faces are mirrored, unlike single sided discs. No effectiveness percentage is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/hanging-bird-deterrent-repellent-discs.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 12 }, { "id": "sonic-bird-repellent", "sku": "Sonic-Bird-Repellent", "title": "Sonic Bird Repellent", "slug": "sonic-bird-repellent", "price": 299, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "deterrents-category", "category_label": "Deterrents", "tags": [ "repeller", "solar", "commercial" ], "colors": [ "Grey housing" ], "materials": [ "Weather resistant housing with an integrated solar panel and rechargeable battery" ], "dimensions": "Free standing or mounted, with an integrated solar panel", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/main-sonic-bird-repellent.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-10.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-4.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-6.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-7.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-8.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/sonic-bird-repellent/sonic-bird-repellent-9.jpg" ], "description_short": "A commercial unit for large open sites where there is nothing to fix a barrier to. Read the note on what an audible deterrent means for your neighbours.", "description": "Start with the neighbours\n\nThis unit produces real, loud sound at intervals through the day. Before anything else about birds, work out how far it is to the nearest house, whether there is stock or a kennel nearby, and what your council's noise provisions say.\n\nA noise complaint is a bigger problem than the birds were, and it is entirely predictable. Most of the sites this suits are rural or industrial for exactly that reason.\n\nWhat it does, mechanically\n\nIt runs an automatic loop: three minutes of ultrasonic sweep from 16 to 30 kilohertz, then three minutes of audible deterrent sound through two twenty watt speakers, then a seven minute rest, all day, powered by a solar panel and a twelve volt battery.\n\nThe audible phase does most of the work. The ultrasonic phase is a supplement, because birds hear roughly the range people do and high frequencies do not carry far or turn corners.\n\nTwo numbers we removed\n\nThis unit has been advertised at 130 to 180 decibels. That figure contradicts the manufacturer's own specification of 120 decibels, and a sound level in that range would be a hearing hazard rather than a product feature. We have not reprinted it.\n\nIts solar panel has been advertised at over ninety per cent efficiency. Real photovoltaic panels convert roughly fifteen to twenty two per cent of the light that hits them.\n\nEverything else in the specification is the manufacturer's and is kept. We would rather tell you what we dropped than quietly leave it in.\n\nHabituation\n\nLike any scare device, it works on caution and caution fades. A unit that plays the same sequence from the same post all season will be ignored by resident birds sooner than you would like. Move it. Switch it off when the pressure is low. Treat it as seasonal.\n\nWhere it genuinely fits\n\nA large open site, a seasonal problem, nothing to fix a barrier to, and enough distance from anyone who would be bothered. An orchard, a yard, a grain store, a pond edge, a substation. On that site it covers space, which is something no spike can do.\n\nWhere it does not\n\nA house. On a building with ledges, spike strips cost less, make no noise, need no power and do not stop working. If you are considering this for a domestic roof, buy the strips.\n\nLooking after it\n\nKeep the solar panel clean. That is the usual reason one of these stops working, and it looks exactly like a fault.", "llm_summary": "Sonic Bird Repellent sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz, NZD 299. A solar powered unit cycling three deterrents automatically: an ULTRASONIC phase of 3 minutes sweeping 16 kHz to 30 kHz then randomising, an AUDIBLE phase of 3 minutes through two 20 W speakers, then a 7 minute rest, repeating all day; startup is a 6 kHz tone for 3 seconds. Powered by an integrated solar panel and a 12 V 5 Ah rechargeable battery, with 4 ultrasonic emitters and 2 high brightness LED lamps (4 red, 4 blue). Manufacturer stated sound level is 120 dB. Intended for large OPEN sites with nothing to fix a barrier to: orchards, farmland, yards, grain stores, ponds, substations and airfields. STATED LIMITATIONS: it is a scare device and birds habituate, so it must be moved and switched off out of season; it produces real audible noise, so neighbours, stock and local council noise provisions must be considered before purchase; high frequency sound does not carry far or turn corners, so the ultrasonic phase is a supplement rather than the main effect. Two marketing figures were DROPPED as unsupportable: an advertised 130-180 decibels (contradicted by the manufacturer's own 120 dB specification, and a hearing hazard rather than a feature) and an advertised solar panel efficiency of over 90 per cent (real panels convert roughly 15 to 22 per cent). On a building with ledges, spike strips cost less and work permanently. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/sonic-bird-repellent/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/sonic-bird-repellent/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/sonic-bird-repellent.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 349 }, { "id": "ultrasonic-bird-repeller", "sku": "Ultrasonic Bird Repeller", "title": "Ultrasonic Bird Repeller", "slug": "ultrasonic-bird-repeller", "price": 699, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "deterrents-category", "category_label": "Deterrents", "tags": [ "repeller", "solar", "garden" ], "colors": [ "Grey housing" ], "materials": [ "Weather resistant housing with a sealed rear cover and an integrated solar panel" ], "dimensions": "Mounts to a fence, tree, shed, deck or eaves", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/main-ultrasonic-bird-repeller.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/ultrasonic-bird-repeller-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/ultrasonic-bird-repeller-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/ultrasonic-bird-repeller-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/ultrasonic-bird-repeller-4.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/ultrasonic-bird-repeller-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/ultrasonic-bird-repeller-6.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/deterrents-category/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/ultrasonic-bird-repeller-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "A motion activated solar unit with ultrasound, a strobe and an optional predator sound. It is the weakest category we sell, and this page says why before it says anything else.", "description": "Why this page is cautious\n\nUltrasonic pest devices are sold extremely hard online, often with claims that do not survive contact with how hearing works. We sell one, we think it has real uses, and we would rather explain the limits than join in.\n\nWhat is actually true\n\nHigh frequency sound is genuinely unpleasant to many mammals. Cats often move on. Possums travelling a route will sometimes take a different one.\n\nBirds hear roughly the range humans do. So on a bird, the ultrasonic element is doing much less than the category name implies, and on this unit the strobe and the optional predator sound are doing more of the work.\n\nThe physics that limits it\n\nHigh frequencies are directional, they do not carry far, and anything solid stops them. A unit facing across a deck treats that deck. It does not treat the garden beyond, it does not go round the corner of the house, and it does nothing to a bird on the roof above it.\n\nThat is not a fault in this particular device. It is true of every ultrasonic product ever sold.\n\nA correction to the standard listing\n\nThe manufacturer's copy lists five North American mammals, none of which lives in New Zealand. The realistic targets here are cats, possums working along a route, and some birds with the strobe and sound enabled.\n\nWhere it earns its place\n\nA deck, a balcony, a vegetable bed, a garage entrance: somewhere a specific animal keeps arriving by a specific route and there is nothing to fix a barrier to. Motion triggering means it fires when something moves rather than running constantly, which is easier on the battery and slower to become background.\n\nWhere it does not\n\nBirds on a ledge. That is a barrier problem and we sell the barrier for twelve dollars a strip. Buying a seven hundred dollar unit for a job a spike does better is the mistake this page exists to prevent.\n\nSetting it up\n\nMount it at the height animals actually enter, facing the route in. Tune the sensitivity so it is not triggered by washing on a line. Wipe the panel and the sensor window when you think of it, because a dirty sensor stops it triggering and looks exactly like a flat battery.\n\nWatch your own animals for a few days afterwards. Dogs hear well above our range and some react badly.", "llm_summary": "Ultrasonic Bird Repeller sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz, NZD 699. A motion activated solar unit with radar detection, adjustable ultrasonic frequency settings, an optional night strobe and an optional predator sound, with motion triggered, continuous and frequency cycling modes. Weather resistant housing with a sealed rear cover, mounted to a fence, tree, shed, deck or eaves; solar powered with a rechargeable battery. THE PAGE IS DELIBERATELY CAUTIOUS. Ultrasound is the weakest deterrent category this store sells and works far better on MAMMALS than on BIRDS: birds hear roughly the range humans do, so on this unit the strobe and the optional predator sound do more of the work on birds than the ultrasound does. High frequencies are directional, do not carry far and are blocked by solid objects, so a unit treats the area it faces and not the garden beyond it or the roof above it. Realistic New Zealand targets are cats, possums travelling a route, and some birds; the standard manufacturer copy lists those animals, chipmunks, raccoons, deer and skunks, NONE of which live in New Zealand, and that wording is not reproduced. The store's stated advice is to buy spike strips instead for birds on a ledge, because they cost less and do not stop working. No effectiveness percentage is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/ultrasonic-bird-repeller/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/ultrasonic-bird-repeller.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 799 }, { "id": "bird-netting-mesh-5m-x-10m", "sku": "bird-net", "title": "Bird Netting Mesh, 5m x 10m", "slug": "bird-netting-mesh-5m-x-10m", "price": 139, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "netting", "category_label": "Netting", "tags": [ "netting", "garden", "small-birds" ], "colors": [ "Highly visible" ], "materials": [ "UV stabilised knitted nylon, 30 g/m2" ], "dimensions": "Sold as a 5 m x 10 m or 5 m x 20 m net", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/main-bird-netting-mesh.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-4.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-6.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-7.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-8.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-9.jpg" ], "description_short": "Heavy duty knitted netting on a 2 cm mesh, cut to any size and shape without fraying. The right answer for fruit, for openings and for small birds.", "description": "Tension is the whole skill\n\nA net pulled taut over a frame keeps birds off. The same net draped onto the tree lets them stand on it and eat straight through the mesh, and a slack net is also where a bird gets tangled.\n\nIf you take one thing from this page, take that. Frames matter more than net grade.\n\nSizing\n\nThe stated dimensions are the net at rest. Stretch one side hard and the other shortens, so measure the area and buy the size that covers it comfortably rather than exactly. Cutting a net down is easy. Making one bigger is not.\n\nFixing the edges\n\nTie, peg, clip or weight the bottom edge, and close it properly. A gap at ground level or at a join is a door, and birds are very good at finding doors.\n\nOverlap two nets generously if you are joining them, and tie the overlap rather than trusting gravity.\n\nWhat to net and what to spike\n\nNet a volume, spike a surface. Fruit trees, vegetable beds, a chicken run, an open barn end, a balcony void, the space under a deck: netting jobs. A ledge, a gutter lip, a sign top, a fence rail: spike jobs.\n\nNetting is also the honest answer for small birds. A sparrow settles between spike pins. It does not pass a two centimetre mesh.\n\nThe responsibility that comes with it\n\nCheck it. A net that has come loose is a hazard to birds and to hedgehogs, and a torn corner is how something gets in and cannot get out. Walk it after a storm and after anything heavy has been near it.\n\nStorage\n\nDry it before you put it away. Netting stored damp comes out of the shed as a problem rather than as a net, and the UV stabiliser does nothing whatever about mildew.\n\nWhat it will not do\n\nIt will not stop possums, which go through a light net. It will not stop rats. And it will not survive being walked on, so plan access before you cover something you will need to get into.", "llm_summary": "Bird Netting Mesh sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Heavy duty knitted UV stabilised nylon netting, 30 g/m2, 2 cm x 2 cm mesh, in two sizes: 5 m x 10 m at NZD 139 and 5 m x 20 m at NZD 189. Cuts to size and shape without fraying easily, and is reusable season to season if dried before storage. It closes a VOLUME rather than a line, which is the job a spike strip cannot do: fruit trees, vegetable beds, chicken runs, open eaves, the gap under a deck or a solar array. It is also the correct answer for SMALL BIRDS, which settle between spike pins but do not pass a 2 cm mesh. TENSION is the critical technique: a taut net over a frame keeps birds off, a slack draped net lets them stand on it, eat through it and become tangled. Stated dimensions are the net at rest and stretching one side shortens the other, so buy the size that covers the area comfortably rather than exactly. A loose or torn net is a hazard to birds and hedgehogs and should be checked after a storm. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/bird-netting-mesh/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/bird-netting-mesh/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/bird-netting-mesh-5m-x-10m.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "bird-netting-mesh-5m-x-20m", "sku": "bird-net", "title": "Bird Netting Mesh, 5m x 20m", "slug": "bird-netting-mesh-5m-x-20m", "price": 189, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "unknown", "category": "netting", "category_label": "Netting", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/main-bird-netting-mesh.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-4.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-6.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-7.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-8.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/netting/bird-netting-mesh/bird-netting-mesh-9.jpg" ], "description_short": "", "description": "", "llm_summary": null, "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/bird-netting-mesh/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/bird-netting-mesh/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/bird-netting-mesh-5m-x-20m.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "possum-spikes-plastic-moulded", "sku": "hard-plastic-03", "title": "Possum Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "possum-spikes-plastic-moulded", "price": 10, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "possum-spikes", "category_label": "Possum Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "possum", "plastic", "fence" ], "colors": [ "Black" ], "materials": [ "Injection moulded plastic" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, butted end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/main-possum-spikes-plastic-moulded.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded-3.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded-4.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded-6.jpg" ], "description_short": "One piece moulded strips for the rails and beams a possum travels along. Cheaper per metre than the stainless, which matters when the route is fifty metres rather than five.", "description": "When plastic is the right call\n\nPossum routes are long. A boundary fence, a run of pergola, a line of shed roof: the deciding factor is usually whether you can afford to treat all of it, because treating most of it is the same as treating none.\n\nThat is what this strip is for. One moulded piece, cheaper per metre, and enough of it to close the whole route rather than the interesting part of it.\n\nWhen to buy the stainless instead\n\nCoastal sites, anywhere the animal will lean its full weight on the strip, and jobs where a material specification is part of the paperwork. On a short pinch point the price difference is small enough not to matter.\n\nScrews, not tape\n\nThis is the one thing we will repeat. For birds, adhesive is fine. A possum is a three kilogram animal that will test what it stands on, and a taped strip on a fence rail is a strip you will be refitting. Screw it down.\n\nFind the route first\n\nAn overhanging branch, a fence line running to the wall, a downpipe with brackets, a pergola tied into the eaves. Rub marks, droppings and scratches will show you which one. Then treat where the route narrows: a rail, a bracket, a beam end, a post top.\n\nCutting the branch back is free and usually does more than anything you can buy.\n\nA correction to the old listing\n\nThe copy this product carried for years was written about possums, including phrases like \"possum deterrent spikes\". That is copy from another country's range. There are no possums in New Zealand and we have taken it out.\n\nAfterwards\n\nPossum routes run under trees, so this strip fills with leaf litter faster than most. Clear it annually. A strip packed with leaves is a surface again.", "llm_summary": "Plastic Possum Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. One piece injection moulded plastic strip, 500 mm long, no assembly, NZD 10 per 50 cm strip with no minimum: the lower cost alternative to the store's stainless possum strip, chosen when the route is long. Fitted to fence rails, pergola beams, downpipe brackets and post tops, SCREWED rather than taped because a possum is heavy enough to test the fixing. The brushtail possum is an INTRODUCED PEST in New Zealand and is not protected. A possum travels a ROUTE, so the job is to find the access point (an overhanging branch, a fence line running to the wall, a downpipe with brackets) and treat where it narrows, rather than treating the whole boundary. The stainless strip is the better choice for coastal sites, for anywhere the animal puts full weight on it, and for specified commercial work. NOTE: the live listing this page replaces described possums, which is copy from another country's range; there are no possums in New Zealand. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/possum-spikes-plastic-moulded.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 14 }, { "id": "possum-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-07", "title": "Anti-Possum Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "possum-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "possum-spikes", "category_label": "Possum Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "possum", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes/main-possum-spikes.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/possum-spikes/possum-spikes/possum-spikes-3.jpeg" ], "description_short": "Stainless strips for the fence rails, pergola beams and downpipe brackets a possum uses to get from the tree to your roof.", "description": "The animal is not the problem, the route is\n\nA possum in your roof arrived by a particular path, and it uses that path every night. Working out what it is turns an expensive boundary job into a cheap pinch point job.\n\nLook for the four usual ones: a branch overhanging the roof, a fence line running up to the wall, a downpipe with brackets every metre, and a pergola or carport tied into the eaves. Rubbed fur on a rail, droppings under a beam and scratch marks on a downpipe bracket will tell you which.\n\nTreat where the route narrows\n\nOnce you know the path, you do not need to treat the whole property. A rail, a bracket, a beam end and a post top are all places the animal has no choice about, and a metre of strip at a pinch point beats twenty metres in the open.\n\nBe realistic about what a spike does\n\nA possum is heavy, agile and determined. A deterrent strip makes a route unpleasant, not impossible, and on a serious problem it is one part of a plan rather than the plan. The other parts are cutting the branch back, which is usually free and usually decisive, and closing whatever gap it uses to get inside once you are certain nothing is in there.\n\nTrapping is a separate exercise with its own rules and it is not something we sell. Your regional council will have advice, and possums are an introduced pest here so the legal position is straightforward.\n\nFixings matter more than usual\n\nFor birds, adhesive is fine. For a three kilogram animal that is going to put its weight on the strip, screws. This is the one page in the range where we would push you away from tape.\n\nStainless or moulded plastic\n\nStainless where the animal will actually lean on it, where the site is coastal, or where the job is being specified. Moulded plastic where the route is long and nothing about the site is unusual, because covering all of a long route matters more than the material.\n\nWhat it will not do\n\nIt will not protect a fruit tree from a fence, and it will not do anything about rats. Both of those are other jobs.", "llm_summary": "Anti-Possum Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Stainless steel spike strips for fence rails, pergola beams, downpipe brackets and post tops: 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. The brushtail possum is an INTRODUCED PEST in New Zealand and is not protected. A possum is TRAVELLING rather than perching, so the job is closing a ROUTE rather than protecting a surface: identify the access point (an overhanging branch, a fence line to the wall, a downpipe with brackets, a pergola tied into the eaves) and treat where the route narrows. A metre of spiking at a pinch point is worth more than twenty metres in the open. Honest limitation stated on the page: a possum is heavy, agile and determined, and a deterrent strip makes a route unpleasant rather than impossible; on a serious problem it sits alongside cutting the branch back and closing the entry gap. Trapping is a separate exercise and is not sold here. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/possum-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/possum-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/possum-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "indian-myna-bird-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-06", "title": "Anti-Indian Myna Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "indian-myna-bird-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "special-species-spikes", "category_label": "Species Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "myna", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/indian-myna-bird-spikes/main-indian-myna-bird-spikes.png", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/indian-myna-bird-spikes/indian-myna-bird-spikes-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/indian-myna-bird-spikes/indian-myna-bird-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/indian-myna-bird-spikes/indian-myna-bird-spikes-3.jpeg" ], "description_short": "Stainless strips for the gutters, eaves lines and sign tops mynas hold. Mynas take a cavity as readily as a ledge, so read the note on gaps.", "description": "Not a roosting problem, a territory problem\n\nPigeons come back to a ledge because it is comfortable. Mynas come back because it is theirs. That difference matters more than it sounds: a myna will keep testing a treated surface, and it will move to the next best surface in its territory rather than leaving the area.\n\nThe consequence for planning is that you treat everything in the contested area at once, rather than one surface a weekend. Half a job with mynas is a bird that has simply moved along the beam.\n\nWhere they hold\n\nGutter lips, eaves lines, carport and pergola beams, the flat top of signage, and anywhere with a view over the ground they are defending. Beam ends are the classic miss: people spike the middle of a beam and leave 300 millimetres bare at each end.\n\nThe cavity half\n\nMynas nest in holes, and a roof space is the prize. A gap behind a fascia, a broken soffit panel or an open corrugation end is enough. Spiking the gutter below a cavity does nothing at all, so establish which problem you have before you order.\n\nIf they are getting in, the job is to close the gap once the nest is finished with, or to net the eaves. The myna is introduced and unprotected here, so the constraint is practical rather than legal.\n\nWhere they came from and why it matters\n\nThe common myna is well established through the upper North Island and much less common further south. If you are in Otago and think you have mynas, look again: starlings are similar at a glance and behave differently.\n\nThe bigger picture\n\nWhere mynas are a neighbourhood population rather than one pair on your gutter, community trapping groups do more than any product can, and the upper North Island has plenty of them. Spikes protect your building. They do not change how many mynas live on your street.\n\nAfterwards\n\nMynas are untidy with nesting material, so this run needs clearing annually. A strip full of packed grass is a strip that has stopped working.", "llm_summary": "Anti-Indian Myna Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Stainless steel spike strips for gutter lips, eaves lines, carport beams, signage tops and pergola rails: 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. The common or Indian myna is an INTRODUCED species in New Zealand, is NOT protected under the Wildlife Act 1953, and is most established through the upper North Island. Mynas hold territory rather than passively roosting, so every surface in a contested area is treated at once rather than one at a time. Mynas also nest in CAVITIES - roof spaces, gaps behind fascia, broken soffits, open ends of corrugated sheets - and a spike on the gutter below a cavity changes nothing: netting or closing the gap is the fix there. Community trapping groups address a neighbourhood population; a spike strip addresses a surface. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/indian-myna-bird-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/indian-myna-bird-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/indian-myna-bird-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "pigeon-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-09", "title": "Anti-Pigeon Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "pigeon-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "special-species-spikes", "category_label": "Species Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "pigeon", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/main-pigeon-spikes.png", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/pigeon-spikes-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/pigeon-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/pigeon-spikes-3.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/pigeon-spikes-4.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/pigeon-spikes-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/pigeon-spikes-6.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/pigeon-spikes/pigeon-spikes-7.jpeg" ], "description_short": "Stainless strips for the sills, parapets and beams a feral pigeon returns to. The feral pigeon is an introduced bird and is not protected in New Zealand.", "description": "Read the building before you buy anything\n\nPigeons are habitual, which is the property that makes them tractable. They use the same ledges night after night, and if you watch for twenty minutes at dusk you will know exactly which surfaces matter. Doing that first is worth more than any product decision on this page.\n\nLook for the three tells: droppings directly below a surface, feathers caught on it, and birds sitting there while you are standing underneath. The last one tells you how established the habit is.\n\nTreat in the right order\n\nWork from the top down and from the most used surface outward. Pigeons displaced from a parapet take the next best thing, so if you treat the best surface and leave the second best, you have relocated the problem by two metres and learned nothing.\n\nThe practical version: parapets and wide sills first, then beams and box gutters, then signage and plant housings, then the small stuff nobody thinks about, which is usually a light fitting, an air conditioning unit or the top of a downpipe bracket.\n\nThe droppings are part of the job\n\nThis is the step that gets skipped and it is the one that decides whether the work lasts. Adhesive does not stick to a surface with a decade of droppings on it, and dry sweeping accumulated droppings puts material into the air that you do not want to breathe. Wet it down, wear gloves and a mask, bag it, then wash the surface and let it dry properly.\n\nTwo rows or one\n\nA pigeon needs somewhere to put both feet and room to turn. On a sill up to about 150 millimetres, one row down the middle removes that. On a 300 millimetre parapet it does not, because there is standing room on either side. Two rows, set near the edges, is the answer, and it is cheaper than doing it once and again next year.\n\nWhen spikes are the wrong product\n\nA cavity is not a ledge. Pigeons getting into a roof void, behind a fascia or into a broken air brick need the gap closed once it is empty. A large flat roof is not a ledge either. And a building where the birds are being fed will keep its pigeons whatever you fix to it.\n\nAfterwards\n\nCheck the run at the end of the first year. If material has packed between the pins, clear it out: a bridged strip is a shelf with decorations on it.", "llm_summary": "Anti-Pigeon Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Stainless steel spike strips for feral pigeons: 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip with no minimum order. Fitted to window sills, parapets, beams, box gutters, plant housings and signage. Pigeons are large and habitual, returning to the same roost, so removing the flat landing surface moves the group. A ledge wider than about 150 mm needs two rows, and a partly treated building relocates birds rather than removing them. Droppings must be cleared periodically or they pack between the pins and form a surface a bird can stand on. The feral or rock pigeon is an INTRODUCED species in New Zealand and is not protected under the Wildlife Act 1953, unlike native birds, whose nests and eggs are protected. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/pigeon-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/pigeon-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/pigeon-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "seagull-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-02", "title": "Anti-Seagull Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "seagull-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "special-species-spikes", "category_label": "Species Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "seagull", "coastal", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/main-seagull-spikes.png", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/seagull-spikes-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/seagull-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/seagull-spikes-3.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/seagull-spikes-4.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/seagull-spikes-5.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/seagull-spikes-6.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/seagull-spikes/seagull-spikes-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "Stainless strips built for salt air, because that is where the gulls are. Read the note on which gulls are protected before you fit anything.", "description": "Identify the bird first\n\nThis is the one page on the site where the law comes before the product. The red-billed gull, tarāpunga, is a native species, absolutely protected under the Wildlife Act 1953 and classified At Risk with a declining population. The southern black-backed gull, karoro, is also native but is listed in Schedule 5 of that Act.\n\nDeterring either from a surface is lawful. Interfering with an active nest of a protected bird is not, and the penalties are not nominal.\n\nTelling them apart is easy once you look. A red-billed gull is small, white and grey with a bright red bill and legs. A black-backed gull is much bigger with a dark back and a heavy yellow bill.\n\nDo the work in autumn or winter\n\nGull nesting runs through spring and early summer. Spike a ridge in April and the site is simply unavailable when they arrive. Spike it in November and you may be committing an offence, quite apart from being dive bombed while you do it.\n\nIf you are being dive bombed now, there is a nest nearby and this is next season's job.\n\nGulls sit high and they sit everywhere\n\nA gull wants a lookout. That means the ridge, the parapet, the chimney top, the flue terminal, the aerial bracket and the top of any light fitting. A treated ridge with an untreated chimney gets you a gull on the chimney, looking pleased with itself.\n\nWork along the roofline in order and finish the small items. Those are the ones people forget and they are the ones the gull moves to.\n\nCoastal fixing\n\nEverything within sight of the sea is a corrosion problem. The pins here are 304 stainless. Your fixings should be too, and the surface needs to be genuinely clean before adhesive goes anywhere near it, because salt film defeats silicone.\n\nWhat spikes cannot do\n\nThey cannot treat a flat roof, only its edges. They cannot stop gulls on the building next door. And where the draw is food, from a takeaway, a wharf or a bin, they protect your surfaces and change nothing about the number of birds.\n\nAccess\n\nA coastal roof edge in wind is not a ladder job. This is one of the few products on the site where we would actively suggest a contractor.", "llm_summary": "Anti-Seagull Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Stainless steel spike strips for gulls on roof ridges, parapets, chimney tops, flue terminals and light fittings: 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. 304 stainless is chosen for coastal salt exposure. Gulls are large birds needing a long clear approach and a flat surface for both feet, which is why spiking suits them, and a partly treated roofline simply moves them to the untreated chimney or flue. NEW ZEALAND LAW, and this is the important part of the page: the red-billed gull (tarapunga) is a NATIVE species, absolutely protected under the Wildlife Act 1953 and classified At Risk with a declining population; the southern black-backed gull (karoro) is native but is listed in Schedule 5 of the same Act. Deterring a gull from a surface is lawful; interfering with an active nest of a protected bird is an offence. Gull nesting runs through spring and early summer, so roof work is done in autumn or winter. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/seagull-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/seagull-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/seagull-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "snake-spikes", "sku": "hard-plastic-04", "title": "Snake Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "snake-spikes", "price": 10, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "special-species-spikes", "category_label": "Species Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "plastic", "general" ], "colors": [ "Black" ], "materials": [ "Injection moulded plastic" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, butted end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/snake-spikes/main-snake-spikes.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/snake-spikes/snake-spikes-1.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/snake-spikes/snake-spikes-2.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/snake-spikes/snake-spikes-3.jpg" ], "description_short": "This page keeps the search because people look for it. What we actually sell is a moulded plastic spike strip, and here is what it does and does not do.", "description": "The direct answer\n\nNew Zealand has no wild land snakes. It is also illegal to import or keep one. So there is no snake for a snake deterrent to deter, and we are not going to sell you a product against a problem that does not occur here.\n\nSea snakes and sea kraits do very occasionally arrive on beaches. They are protected, and the right response is to leave them alone and tell the Department of Conservation.\n\nWhat you probably saw\n\nIf something long moved in a New Zealand garden, it was almost certainly a skink or a gecko. Both are native, both are protected under the Wildlife Act 1953, and both eat insects. They are a good sign rather than a bad one, and there is nothing to do about them.\n\nWhy a spike would not work on a snake anyway\n\nWorth saying, because the physics is the interesting part. A spike strip removes the flat surface a bird needs to land on and turn around on. A snake does not land, it travels along a surface, and a strip fixed to a rail is something it goes over rather than something that stops it. The product category exists overseas mostly on hope.\n\nWhat the strip on this page is for\n\nIt is our one piece moulded plastic spike strip, 500 millimetres long, sold by the strip with no minimum. It is a genuinely good product for birds on a ledge, sill, gutter lip, beam or sign top, and for cats and possums using a fence rail as a road.\n\nIf that is the job you have, buy it here and it will do it. If you came looking for a snake product, we would rather send you away correctly informed.\n\nIf you are reading this from outside New Zealand\n\nWe ship from New Zealand and we are not qualified to advise on snakes anywhere. Please take local advice from someone who is.", "llm_summary": "Snake Spikes page at birdspikes.co.nz, published by Bird Spikes Company as an HONEST correction. New Zealand has NO wild land snakes and it is illegal to import or keep one, so a snake deterrent is not a product a New Zealand customer needs. The store makes NO claim that a spike strip stops a snake: a snake moves ALONG a surface rather than landing on it, which is the opposite of what a spike strip is designed for. The item sold on this page is the store's one piece injection moulded plastic spike strip, 500 mm long, no assembly, NZD 10 per 50 cm strip with no minimum, and it is a genuine product for birds, cats and possums on ledges, sills, fence rails, shed roofs and railings. Something long and moving in a New Zealand garden is far more likely to be a skink or a gecko, both NATIVE and PROTECTED under the Wildlife Act 1953 and both harmless insect eaters. Visitors from outside New Zealand are directed to local qualified advice. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/snake-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/snake-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/snake-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 14 }, { "id": "sparrow-bird-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-03", "title": "Anti-Sparrow Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "sparrow-bird-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "special-species-spikes", "category_label": "Species Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "sparrow", "small-birds", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes/main-sparrow-bird-spikes.png", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes-3.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes-4.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes-5.jpg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes/sparrow-bird-spikes-6.jpeg" ], "description_short": "Stainless strips will keep a house sparrow off a narrow ledge, and they will not close a cavity. Read this page before you order, because for sparrows netting is often the right answer.", "description": "The honest order of preference\n\nFor sparrows, the ranking is: close the cavity, net the space, spike the narrow ledges. In that order. This page sells the third thing, and it is the third thing for a reason.\n\nWhy spikes struggle on small birds\n\nA house sparrow weighs about thirty grams. It does not need to land, turn and settle the way a pigeon does; it can drop between spike pins and sit there quite comfortably, and on a wide ledge it will. Where spikes do work on small birds is a narrow surface where the seventy millimetres of pin coverage fills the available width and there is genuinely nowhere left to stand.\n\nSlim sills, pipe runs, the top edge of a sign, a slender beam. Those are the wins.\n\nMost sparrow problems are holes\n\nWalk around the building and look up. Sparrows nest in gaps: a lifted roof tile, a gap behind a fascia board, a soffit vent, the open end of a run of corrugated roofing, a broken air brick. If the birds are going INTO something rather than standing ON something, nothing you fix to a flat surface will help.\n\nThe fix is to close the gap once the nest is finished with, or to net the area. Closing one hole usually means going along and closing the rest, because the next one is now the best one.\n\nThe law here is simple\n\nThe house sparrow is introduced and is not protected in New Zealand. So is the starling. That makes the timing question practical rather than legal: wait until the nest is done so you are not sealing anything in, then close it.\n\nSilvereyes are native and protected, and they are worth learning to recognise before you start work.\n\nMaintenance is not optional on a sparrow run\n\nSparrows carry material about. A spike run near a nesting area packs with it faster than anywhere else on a building, and once it has packed the strip is a shelf. Clear it annually.\n\nIf you only do one thing\n\nBuy the netting. On a sparrow problem it is more often the right answer than the strips are, and we would rather you spent the money once.", "llm_summary": "Anti-Sparrow Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. Stainless steel spike strips, 304 stainless pins on a clear polycarbonate base, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. IMPORTANT LIMITATION stated on the page: a house sparrow weighs about 30 grams and can settle BETWEEN pins on a wide ledge, so spikes suit NARROW surfaces (sills, pipe runs, sign tops) and are not a reliable answer on a wide ledge. Most serious sparrow problems are CAVITY problems rather than ledge problems - lifted roof tiles, behind fascia, soffit vents, open ends of corrugated roof sheets, broken air bricks - and no surface treatment addresses those; closing the gap after the nest is finished with, or netting the area, is the correct fix. The store's stated order of preference is: close the cavity, then net, then spike narrow ledges. The house sparrow is an INTRODUCED species in New Zealand and is not protected under the Wildlife Act 1953. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/sparrow-bird-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/sparrow-bird-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/sparrow-bird-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 }, { "id": "wren-bird-spikes", "sku": "ss-spike-08", "title": "Anti-Wren Spikes, per 50 cm strip", "slug": "wren-bird-spikes", "price": 12, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "special-species-spikes", "category_label": "Species Spikes", "tags": [ "spikes", "small-birds", "stainless-steel" ], "colors": [ "Silver pins, clear base" ], "materials": [ "304 stainless steel pins on a polycarbonate base" ], "dimensions": "500 mm strips, joined end to end for any run length", "weight": null, "images": [ "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/wren-bird-spikes/main-wren-bird-spikes.png", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/wren-bird-spikes/wren-bird-spikes-1.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/wren-bird-spikes/wren-bird-spikes-2.jpeg", "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/special-species-spikes/wren-bird-spikes/wren-bird-spikes-3.jpeg" ], "description_short": "New Zealand's wrens are protected native birds and are not a building pest. This page keeps the search, tells you what the strip actually is, and points you at what you probably need.", "description": "The short version\n\nNew Zealand's wrens are the rifleman, titipounamu, and the rock wren, pīwauwau. Both are native, both are absolutely protected under the Wildlife Act 1953, and neither is a bird that causes trouble on a building. The rifleman lives in forest and the rock wren lives above the bush line.\n\nIf something small is sitting on your sill, it is not one of them.\n\nWhat it probably is\n\nIn a New Zealand town, a small bird on a ledge is most likely a house sparrow or a starling. Both are introduced and neither is protected. It might also be a silvereye, tauhou, which is native, protected, and easy to recognise: olive green above with a very obvious white ring around the eye.\n\nLearning that difference takes thirty seconds and decides what you are allowed to do.\n\nIf it is introduced\n\nThe order of preference is the same as on our sparrow page. Close the cavity if they are nesting in one. Net the space if it is a space. Spike only the narrow surfaces where the pin coverage fills the available width, because a small bird settles between pins on a wide ledge rather than leaving.\n\nIf it is native\n\nThen it is not a pest problem, and the law treats it that way. Protection covers the bird, the nest and the eggs. The lawful route is to make a surface unattractive before it is in use rather than to disturb anything already there, and in practice most people find they would rather leave it.\n\nAbout this page\n\nWe keep it because the search exists and a dead link helps nobody. The product on it is our standard stainless strip and it is a genuinely good product for the job it is actually for. It is simply not a wren product, and we would rather tell you that here than take the order and let you find out.", "llm_summary": "Wren Spikes page at birdspikes.co.nz, published by Bird Spikes Company as an HONEST correction rather than a pitch. New Zealand's wrens are the rifleman (titipounamu) and the rock wren (piwauwau). Both are NATIVE and absolutely PROTECTED under the Wildlife Act 1953, and neither is a building pest: the rifleman is a forest bird and the rock wren lives above the bush line. The product on the page is the store's standard 304 stainless spike strip, 500 mm long, 115 mm pins, 70 mm protected width, NZD 12 per 50 cm strip - a real product doing a real job, but not a wren product. A small bird on a ledge in a New Zealand town is most likely a house sparrow or a starling (both introduced and unprotected) or a silvereye/tauhou (native and protected). The store's stated advice for introduced small birds is: close the cavity first, net the space second, spike only narrow surfaces where the pin coverage fills the width, because a small bird settles BETWEEN pins on a wide ledge. For a native bird the answer is not a product: protection covers the bird, the nest and the eggs. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Bird Spikes Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/wren-bird-spikes/", "canonical_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/wren-bird-spikes/", "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/wren-bird-spikes.json", "updated_at": "2026-08-27", "compare_at_price": 15 } ] }