Zoo Canada Geese Control

Zoos are landscaped to be inviting, with open lawns, ponds, and quiet corners between exhibits, which makes them just as inviting to wild Canada geese as they are to visitors. Wild geese settling in among managed animal habitats create droppings, water quality concerns in exhibit ponds, and occasional territorial encounters with guests, all while zoo staff have to manage the issue without disturbing the animals and programs the property is built around.

Birds & Geese Beware, Inc. has worked with zoos and animal care facilities across New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut since 1991, using methods calibrated for sites where wildlife management has to work around wildlife already on exhibit.

Wild goose pressure at zoos tracks the seasonal calendar. Nesting season, late winter into early spring, is when resident pairs stake out territory near exhibit ponds or quiet lawn corridors, and it is the best window for a concentrated Initial Clearing Program to keep a pair from settling in for the year. During the summer molt, adult geese are flightless for several weeks and settle on the most reliable open water and grass available, which on zoo grounds is often an exhibit pond, right as visitor traffic peaks for the season. Migratory flocks passing through in fall can briefly add to whatever resident wild birds are already on the property.

Zoos that share seasonal visitor patterns and any exhibit changes with us get a service calendar built around them, coordinated closely with the animal care team throughout.