The NWCOA Certified Bird Management Course, Part 1 will be offered by NWCOA to train WCOs that currently perform or wish to add residential and small commercial bird management to their wildlife management services. This course is a one-day, classroom style training course taught by Master NWCOA Instructors and Certified NWCOA Instructors.

Upon successful completion of this course and a test, the WCO will receive a certificate of completion, use of the logo mark and become a NWCOA Certified Bird Management Professional.

Topics Include:

• Laws and regulation
• Biology and behavior of commonly encountered bird species
• Damage identification
• Zoonotic disease
• Control methods
• Habitat modification: exclusion, frightening devices, shooting and trapping, and toxicants and repellents.
• Business management and customer relations