ECOLOGICAL METHODS OF BIRD CONTROL IN URBAN AGROCOENOSES IN WARSAW

The development of city agglomeration and suburban areas largely affect animal, mainly bird, behaviour. Warsaw as an example of devastated landscape with developing industry and housing and degraded natural ecosystems creates excellent conditions for the invasion and settlement of bird populations. Increasing problem of overpopulated avifauna results in the dispersion of animal-borne diseases. This paper is focussed on the importance of avifauna for a city, on diseases birds might disperse and on ecological methods of bird control in public places like supermarkets and facades of historical buildings.