Bespoke Products & Nestboxes
The products listed on our website detail our standard range of products. If you have a specific requirement which is not met or want something a little bit different please get in touch. We are always happy to discuss your requirements and frequently collaborate to design and produce new products for our clients. We can easily modify an existing box for you or, using our design and manufacturing experience, produce a completely new design for your project. This can be anything as small as changing the width of the entrance hole on a bat box to a completely new design. Our manufacturing processes are all based on small batches, so making a small number, or even just one, adjustment or special product, need not be prohibitively expensive.
To get in touch to discuss your requirements or ideas please email us at support@wildlifeservices.co.uk
To give an idea of the range of products and modifications undertaken in the past here are a couple of examples:
Example 1. Peregrine nest platform
The developer refurbishing one of Birmingham's iconic buildings wanted to include in the design nesting opportunities on the roof for the expanding population of urban peregrine falcons.
Example 2. Custom sized nestboxes
As part of the London 2012 Olympics building project, boxes for house sparrows, starlings, swifts and black redstarts, as well as Bat Roost and Bat Tube boxes, were supplied. All the designs had to be bespoke with, in most cases, the capability of being unobtrusively fitted behind the building fascia. Some boxes were designed from scratch, whilst others were modified from standard designs.
Example 3. Modified heated bat box
A client needed to provide a heated bat box as part of a mitigation package due to the loss of a roost site used by a maternity colony of soprano pipistrelle bats. They had identified the heated bat box as being appropriate for providing an alternative roost site for the maternity colony. However, due to the size of the colony, they were concerned that the standard heated bat box was not going to be big enough. After discussions with the client and estimating the size of the box required for the several hundred bats which formed the maternity colony, a heated bat box with twice the internal volume of our standard box was supplied.
In the light of this experience, the idea was developed a little further for regular production, and added a heated bat box with a larger internal volume (specifically for large soprano pipistrelle colonies) to the standard range.