I've had my trap for 1 month. Twist tie the trap entrance so it stays in the upright position for 1 week. It's very IMPORTANT that you keep the trap baited at all times. After a week the sparrows won't be trap shy. When I removed the zip tie, I caught 51 sparrows in a single day! Make sure you dispatch the birds once you get about 10 to 15 sparrows in the trap. It's less effective when the trap is overcrowded. ALWAYS leave 1 female in the trap when you take the trap back outside. Now I leave the twist tie on the trap Monday thru Thursday and constantly keep it baited. Every Friday morning, the twist tie is removed. Its incredible how effective this method is.

Many years ago, my mom swears a parakeet visited her bird feeders here in Michigan.

You are so kind for catching and taking care of the parakeet. It will save his life!

Thank you Jinginny, Our solution was my making a small block of 1 x trimmed to the exact shape of the entry to the elevator. Apparently the birds eye view of that obstruction caused all birds to shy away. Your idea has much merit as it keeps a larger bodied avian from entering, but is not a visual block to a sparrow. I love your parakeet story. Poor little thing. I am glad you were able to effect a rescue and a beautiful sanctuary for the little one.

We have wild Parakeet here in Chile. Neat that you caught the bird. Jim in Chile.... Also thanks for donating the inverter to Bobby!

Thank you for the update, it was obvious that the trap was destined for... great things!

I've had this trap for 2 +years. Only bring out when my neighbors feeder starts attracting way to many sparrows. I have caught a chipmunk recently and a Hawk visiting my trap.

Catching a budgie would have been very surprising!

If you only want sparrow you have to stop using bird seed and change to bread. The wild birds will not go after the bread.

Your a good man, Jim. You made Bobby's day 👍

Aussie Budgie you caught there.

What is the best bait to use. Pop corn,bread,milet,milo?

Thats an Australian Budgerigar.

We have a repeating trap and it works very well. The problem is... we are catching everything but HOSP! Do you find it is best to place the trap on the ground or on a platform?

I bought this trap after watching your video because house sparrows have been stealing my chicken feed and driving away native birds from my garden. On the first day I caught and culled 11, and the following morning the goldfinches had returned to my garden (I plant things just for them) -on day two I saw no sparrows in the morning when I checked on the chickens and came home to three more in the trap. It’s super effective and a total game changer

Budgerigar. Native to my country. They are annoying as pets but very good as food! Australians have eaten them for thousands of years.

Will it work for starlings?

I just purchased this trap, so I’m binge watching all the videos to get as much information as I can.. I have a whole bunch that have recently just taken over in my backyard. My bluebirds are still doing just fine but I’m so worried for them. My question is if I get a whole bunch trapped at one time do you need to take each bird out one by one with your hand or do you put a bag over the cage? I ordered mesh laundry bags I sought on another site or someone said that was helpful, any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.❤️

I've had mine out for 6 months & have not caught anything. Any suggestions?

We bought this same sparrow trap several months ago. At first we caught some house sparrows. I think we have caught somewhere in the vicinity of 35 house sparrows, but it has been problematic. We have also caught some larger birds like curved beak thrshers and a blue jay or two. The worst of it has been catching mature Gambel's quail. They get greedy and get stuck in the elevator down with no escape and then we have to fish them out. I tyried using a restricting one and a half inch hole to exclude them , but then no one used it. So we will be looking elsewhere.

Thank you for these sparrow trap videos. I want to eliminate some euro sparrows that mob my feeders, and think i will try this trap!

So what do you do with the ones you catch ?

After catching quite a few, the sparrows "got wise" to this trap and can eat the bait without getting into the trap. I've had to go to Bird Barrier trap. Trying to get ready to put up a Purple Martin box.

where did you get the sparrow trap

WOW so cool man. That is cool. Maybe he will be part of the fam. Thanks for sharing. God Bless..

WHERE DO I GET A TRAP LIKE THAT, YOU DON'T POST A LINK OR NOTHING

where did you buy this?

I just found out about this kind of trap I have Purple Martins every year and it’s been challenging I noticed this co doesn’t have a phone number just wanted to make sure it is a good co Thanks

I won't be able to put on ground too many squirrels who'd chew in and to get out.

That looks great!! How do you dispose of trapped sparrows? And what food do you attract them with?

I have sparrows killing bluebird juveniles. 😔

It would be better if you listed the dimensions of this trap in the video description. I can't think of any reason not to do that. Most people are probably going to want to give the sparrows and starlings "swimming lessons" and the easiest way to do that is by dropping the trap into a retired tropical fish tank.

Bobby Paradise sent me.

I Love This Trap I Want This Trap plz help me , I'm from Pakistan

You need to remove that mirror if you still have the Budgie. They cause severe psychological stress to parrots because they lack the ability to recoginize their own reflection. Also get some natural perches rather than only dowels, Or else it causes foot sores and eventually arthritis. He also needs a larger cage, More toys (the bells are dangerous btw). I also will assume he is on a seed diet, Just because it's very common for people to feed them that, But he needs pellets and fresh vegetable chop daily. Seed is too high fat for them and will cause obesity. Even if you avoid the obesity it will cause fatty liver disease which can kill your bird. For pellets he should be getting Harrison's, TOP's, Or Roudybush. Seed should only make up 10% of the daily diet and it's best used as a training/foraging treat. Also avoid feeding fruit any more than twice a week, Otherwise it's too much sugar and isn't good for their digestive system. It can also lead to hormonal imbalances which is stressful on the bird.

Too many sparrows

Hope you didn’t release the Cow bird there very invasive leading to the brink of extinction of some species

I hope you are not killing these little birds? Here in the UK we love to have them in our gardens. Anyone who kills these little things is a rsole.

We don’t go round slaughtering your grey squirrels that your ancestors brought over here. They have driven out our native red squirrels now we are stuck with them leave the sparrow’s alone nature will find a way to live together.

Trapping sparrows, means killing them, these little birds have it tough enough without idiots trapping and the boastingcaboutvit - shame on you.