Device for protecting against birds, and arrangement

A device for protecting against birds, which has at least one fastening support on which holders are provided, wherein the holders protrude from the at least one fastening support and through each of the holders a protection element is guidable, said protection element comprising a head part, wherein:

• the holders are formed by guide sleeves, which are held on the at least one fastening support in parallel and at a distance from one another, wherein each of the guide sleeves comprises a guide channel having an entry opening and an exit opening, wherein each guide channel has a narrowing of the cross section of the guide channel between the entry opening and the exit opening,
• each of the protection elements is movable, in a free falling manner, in the associated guide sleeve from the entry opening thereof at most to the narrowing of the cross section thereof until the fall of the protection element is stopped by the guidable head part thereof resting against the narrowing of the cross section, and
• wherein adjacent ones of the guide sleeves, which are held in parallel with one another on the at least one fastening support, are further interconnected by at least one stabilizing connection piece that is spaced apart from the at least one fastening support.