If you're dealing with persistent bird issues, combining wind chimes with other deterrents—such as reflective objects, motion-activated devices, or netting—may be more effective.

There is no easy, permanent and totally effective way to keep away pigeons and other poop-prone birds. But you can make your space less appealing.

Bird-scare guns and reflective films will be used at Biju Patnaik airport to scare away birds, which keep flocking near the airport operation areas.

State transportation officials say they intend to keep using the reflective lane striping tape that has peeled up along some heavily traveled interstates around metro Atlanta, despite recent problems.

Bradford said she was forced to cut down her lilac tree because too many birds were roosting in it. She put up mirrors, pinwheels and reflective tape to scare them away.

Paulette Kenyon, Pleasanton DEAR PAULETTE: The reflective discs are one of the more common ways of deterring birds in a yard, but I question whether they are effective in this case.

Multi-scare the birds What does it take to scoot birds away from a field? More, maybe, than you might imagine. Augustina Pruteanu and colleagues at the National Institute of Research-Development ...