RAPTOR PROTECTOR™ Covers

Prevent Bird Electrocution with RAPTOR PROTECTOR Products and shield your power utility from outages and soaring fines

Eagles, hawks and owls perch in comfortably high places — including on your power poles and lines. But the brush of a wing can change that in a flash.

Not only can bird electrocutions lead to power outages and system damage, they can potentially lead to soaring fines from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Since 1999, the federal government has made it clear that utility companies are in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and/or Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act when certain birds are killed unintentionally on their power lines.

To protect your power utility and comply with U.S. law, Preformed Line Products offers a series of RAPTOR PROTECTOR Products. These polyethylene covers quickly and easily snap on to insulators or dead-ends, providing a barrier between perching birds and dangerous voltage.

Fits any insulator or dead-end configuration and the family has six variations:

  1. Tangent — installs over (single or double) pin or post insulators, 80 inches long, bends up to 10 degrees
  2. Heavy Angle — installs over (single or double) pin or post insulators, 80 inches long, bends up to  30 degrees
  3. Horizontal Trunnion — installs over horizontal trunnion insulators, 80 inches long, bends up to 10 degrees
  4. Vertical Trunnion — installs over vertical trunnion insulators, 80 inches long, bends up to 10 degrees
  5. Dead-end (small) — installs over dead-ends, 30 inches long, for ranges between .175 and .730 inches
  6. Dead-end (large) — installs over dead-ends, 30 inches long, for ranges between .541 and 1.300 inches


Easy to install, holds fast

Using a hot stick or gloves, linemen can install the lightweight RAPTOR PROTECTOR Products in seconds. Lock pins hold the product in place. Dead-end variations come with a pigtail attachment to hold the product in place over the insulator and an anti-lift clip to keep it on the conductor.

Preformed Line Products offers free training, including at customer locations and in the field.

“The RAPTOR PROTECTOR has a streamlined profile, which helps keep it stable in the wind,” says Mark Burns, Market Manager of Distribution Products. “With pins or clips, it holds fast — not falling off or sliding along the conductor due to aeolian vibration or other conditions.”


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