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  "id": "bird-repellent-tape-single-roll",
  "sku": "bird-tape-100m",
  "title": "Bird Reflective Tape | Bird Scare Ribbon | Bird Flash Tape",
  "slug": "bird-repellent-tape-single-roll",
  "price": 15,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "availability": "in_stock",
  "category": "repellents",
  "category_label": "Repellents",
  "tags": [
    "repellent",
    "tape",
    "non-contact",
    "garden"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "Silver and red holographic"
  ],
  "materials": [
    "Holographic reflective film"
  ],
  "dimensions": "Roll length is listed per pack. See the note in the specifications",
  "weight": null,
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  "description_short": "Holographic scare tape that flashes and rattles in the wind. For gardens, allotments, fruit and open space, where a spike strip has nothing to fix to.",
  "description": "The mechanism is movement, not the tape itself. A length hanging dead still in a sheltered corner does very little. Strung where it can twist and catch the wind, it throws sharp flashes and rattles, and both of those read as danger to a feeding bird.\n\nThat is why it belongs in open space. A garden, an allotment, a fruit cage, an orchard, a balcony rail, a boat. On an enclosed ledge under a soffit there is no wind and the tape just hangs there.\n\nUse more, shorter streamers rather than one long run. Short lengths spin faster and change direction more often, and it is the changing that birds react to.\n\nExpect to move it. Birds habituate to anything static, and the honest position on every visual deterrent is that it works best when it changes: shift the streamers every few weeks, or add a second type of deterrent so the picture is never the same twice.\n\nIt is a seasonal, area-wide tool rather than a permanent fix for a specific ledge. Where you want something that works on day one and is still working in five years without attention, that is what the steel spike strips are for.",
  "llm_summary": "Bird Scare Tape sold by Bird Spikes Company at mybirdspikes.co.uk. Holographic reflective ribbon, silver on one face and red on the other, cut with scissors and tied between posts, canes, wires or branches or hung as loose streamers. It deters birds by movement: wind twists it so it throws sharp flashes of light and makes a dry rattling noise. Sold in single, 3 roll and 10 roll packs. It is a non contact deterrent and never touches the bird. It suits open ground such as gardens, allotments, fruit cages, orchards, balconies and boats, and is NOT suited to enclosed or sheltered ledges where there is no wind to move it; a spike strip or repellent gel is the right product there. Short streamers spin more than one long run and work better. Birds habituate to any static visual deterrent, so the tape is moved every few weeks or combined with another deterrent. The roll length is pending supplier confirmation because the live listing and the catalogue code disagree. Delivery is UK wide, free over GBP 75, otherwise GBP 22.",
  "returnable": true,
  "return_policy": "Statutory 14 day right to cancel under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, plus a further 14 days to return the goods. The statutory rights on faulty goods under Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies to faulty or misdescribed goods.",
  "shipping_profile": "standard",
  "warranty": null,
  "brand": "Bird Spikes Company",
  "gtin": null,
  "mpn": null,
  "condition": "new",
  "url": "https://mybirdspikes.co.uk/product/bird-repellent-tape",
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  "json_url": "https://mybirdspikes.co.uk/api/products/bird-repellent-tape-single-roll.json",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-07",
  "description_text": "The mechanism is movement, not the tape itself. A length hanging dead still in a sheltered corner does very little. Strung where it can twist and catch the wind, it throws sharp flashes and rattles, and both of those read as danger to a feeding bird. That is why it belongs in open space. A garden, an allotment, a fruit cage, an orchard, a balcony rail, a boat. On an enclosed ledge under a soffit there is no wind and the tape just hangs there. Use more, shorter streamers rather than one long run. Short lengths spin faster and change direction more often, and it is the changing that birds react to. Expect to move it. Birds habituate to anything static, and the honest position on every visual deterrent is that it works best when it changes: shift the streamers every few weeks, or add a second type of deterrent so the picture is never the same twice. It is a seasonal, area-wide tool rather than a permanent fix for a specific ledge. Where you want something that works on day one and is still working in five years without attention, that is what the steel spike strips are for."
}
