Birdstrike Control Program serves as a premiere source of professionally custom-trained dogs and quality on-site employee instruction/airfield analysis for airports and military installations instituting bird and wildlife hazard control programs. Birdstrike Control Program trained and placed the first dog in the nation to be employed by a commercial airport for bird strike control, as well as the first dogs to be used by the U.S. Air Force, the Canadian Air Force, the Israeli Air Force and Canadian commercial airports. Birdstrike Control Program was also the first in the world to introduce a trained dog for bird control in the aquaculture industry.

Birdstrike Control Program's dogs have been featured throughout the national and international media. Prominent feature stories on BCP's dogs have run in major newspapers such as USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Sentinel, the Jacksonville Times-Union, and approximately 350 local papers throughout the United States. Birdstrike Control Program has also been featured on national television networks, including CBS Evening News, CNN Headline News, ABC News, NBC's "Today" show, Animal Planet, and America's Health Network. Additionally, stories on BCP's program ran on more than 240 local news stations, accounting for more than 28 million viewers. Television coverage also ran internationally in more than 20 countries. General and trade magazines have spotlighted BCP's program as well - People magazine, ICAO Journal, Flying magazine, Illustrated Current News, Airport magazine, and Weekly Reader. Radio interviews have appeared on National Public Radio and more than 200 local radio stations throughout the US, and additional radio spots ran in 15 countries.

Border Collies are now the fastest-growing and most popular form of bird control on airports, military airbases, golf courses and other venues across the country. The reasons for this are numerous but the primary rationale is that they are highly intelligent, adaptable and intense working dogs that are able to cope with most species of bird and larger wildlife in all but the worst of environments and circumstances. Airfield directors and communities are discovering the true advantages of putting a herding dog to the task of harassing geese and a wide variety of other species, with a small investment of finances and initial handler training.

Here are some of the benefits of using a Border Collie in your bird control program:

• NO HABITUATION
  There is no habituation problem with Border Collies on wild bird populations. Border Collies can not only continuously pursue the bird populations but they pose an actual, not perceived, threat to the wildlife;

• ALL ENVIRONMENTS
  Border Collies can work in almost all weather conditions and can travel over all forms of terrain, including following waterfowl into marshes or open water;

• BIRD AND WILDLIFE CONTROL
  Border Collies can be used to control both bird and wildlife (e.g. deer) populations, irrespective of size. In fact, the bigger the bird or the wildlife species (a serious consideration when one understands that the force of the impact is largely determined by the mass of the species (F=ma)), the more effective a Border Collie is at permanently harassing them from the environment;

• TIRELESS WORK ETHIC
  Border Collies can work for hours upon end. They have been bred to herd sheep over hill and dale on the moors of Scotland and Wales and this endurance translates well to other working habitats. Thje dogs are capable of working all day, every day. Other employees will tire or stop working - Border Collies will not;

• CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT
  Border Collies are intelligent creatures and can learn from various situations and adapt to changing circumstances as required;

• NON-LETHAL CONTROL
  Border Collies have the instinct to herd animals but have been bred to avoid "going in for the kill". Since they do not harm the birds being harassed, they can be used to deter protected species of bird and wildlife. For this reason, in some states, they are the only acceptable means of deterring protected species;

• QUIET WORK
  Border Collies are silent workers and rely on visual threats to wildlife in their deterrence. This means that they can still be effective in very noisy environments such as airfields or can work without disturbing people in the area, such as golfers on a golf course;

• MASSIVE AREA COVERAGE
  A single handler and Border Collie can cover a large area of territory (generally 50 square kilometers). The dogs can be directed on command to change directions, lie down, approach the birds, back away, continue searching, or to quit working without the handler ever having to change position;

• EASE OF USE
  Border Collies trained for bird control come with a set of standard verbal and whistle commands that can be learned quickly, facilitating the easy initial training of a handler or the transfer to a new handler;

• NIGHT WORK
  Border Collies can also work at night on airfields to remove deer or birds. With a predator's vision and sense of smell, the dogs are capable of detecting deer in dimly lit environments. The main limitation in harassing deer or birds at night with a Border Collie is the handler's vision, true of most other forms of control. Work with night-vision goggles and laser-lit collars is highly effective - the dogs are actually easier to spot at night using the laser collars than they are during the day. The overall limitation is spotting the wildlife itself;

• PRECISE AND ACCURATE CONTROL
  Border Collies can be precisely directed, enabling directional dispersals of birds or wildlife. This avoids the tendency of birds, for example, to scatter and then to regroup in an area just behind their initial staging area;

• ALL WILDLIFE
  Border Collies can be used to deter almost all forms of wildlife, including flocks of smaller-sized birds such as gulls or blackbirds;

• LONG WORKING LIFESPAN
  Border Collies have a lifespan of approximately 14-15 years. The dogs are capable of working as early as 1 year of age and can generally continue working until they are 11-12 years old or more;