A bird’s eye view of Birdzout
Soaring over the wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, you’ll see an untamed land where mountains touch the sky, ancient forests reach out to the edge of the sea, and plunging cliffs guard the wide horizon.
Here, nature is in charge. Beautiful and breathtaking.
This is our home. It’s where Birdzout products are conceptualised, designed, built, tested and proven.
A natural threat to global business
We founded Birdzout because we recognised that for businesses around the world, one of the greatest threats doesn’t come from competitors. It comes from the natural world, from the sky.
Pest birds wreck crops, disrupt travel and destroy infrastructure. They cost billions in lost revenue, damaged assets and downtime. In fact, in 2024 alone, global losses from pest birds were estimated at NZ$6.39 billion.
More than just a nuisance, pest birds can carry over 60 transmissible diseases that affect humans, livestock and crops.
Innovation takes flight
Birdzout took off in 2012 with a simple idea: we can do better. Technology had already transformed many industries, so we asked: why not wildlife control too? In particular, those pesky pest birds.
We pulled apart existing products, studied what worked and what didn’t, and worked on creating smarter, stronger, more effective solutions.
The world’s natural testing ground
From rugged farms to busy airports, windswept hills to coastal vineyards, we have every kind of environment to test our ideas and solutions. New Zealand’s landscapes give us a serious advantage.
Combining our knowledge of pest bird behaviour with leading-edge technology, we aim to create the best solutions.
Effective, humane, easy to set up, easy to use. High-tech innovation with a practical Kiwi twist.
Bright ideas and laser beams
After plenty of hard graft, in 2012 we launched our first big breakthrough: an automated bird laser deterrent.
It moved, adapted, and sent a crystal-clear message to pest birds: ‘Hey, stay away, vamoose’. Lasers are proven, humane and highly effective, especially at dawn and dusk.
The thinking behind that breakthrough product shaped everything we’ve built since. Innovative, practical, effective, easy to use.
Tougher by nature, better by design
From there on, we kept building: Birdzout Bioacoustics, Birdzout BirdErasers, and Birdzout Auto Lasers.
Permanent or portable, hybrid or hand-held, our systems blend lessons drawn from the natural world with the smartest tech we can lay our hands on. Lasers, bioacoustics, birderasers and other innovative solutions.
All are designed and engineered to face down the worst nature can throw at them.
No one-size-fits-all
At Birdzout, we’re proud that our technology is only half the story. The other half is your business.
We know that every site is different. Every bird problem is different. That’s why we custom-build some of our solutions in-house, to meet the exact needs of your environment.
We listen. We assess. We engineer. Most of all, we get it right for your business.
From our West Coast to the world
From a small start-up on the West Coast to a global mission, Birdzout can now protect businesses across the world from pest birds. Whether on sun-baked orchards in the southern hemisphere or the busiest airports on the planet.
Our systems are proudly designed and built in New Zealand. Wherever Birdzout goes, a piece of New Zealand goes too. Big ideas from Westport, a small place on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island.
