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[Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

If birds get tangle trap on them they will most likely die.  I have seen a gooed up bird hopping on the turf near a tree where tangle trap was fairly horizontally applied.  I was able to clean the bird's feathers with a solvent but it would have died otherwise.  If you don't want to kill a lot of birds I suggest removing lower branches.