Those owl replicas that you can buy at Lowe's don't work beyond a few days.
What DOES work is a "kinetic" owl. You can get 'em on Amazon. Also other birds-of-prey replicas such as ospreys. They're lifesized, with "wings" that spin in the wind. After trying everything under the sun to keep the critters away from my patio garden I finally went the kinetic owl route. Keeps everything away. They're made to sit on a pole with the other end of the pole in the ground, so they rotate with the wind as well as "flapping" their wings.
Mounting it might be a problem. The pole that comes with them is a fiberglas thingy maybe three feet long at most, and it bends (and breaks) readily when the wind is too strong. I solved that by buying a 4' length of 3/8" rebar at Lowe's and duct-taping the swivel end of the fiberglas pole to the re-bar. Works perfectly and keeps the owl ("Seymour") a respectable distance from the ground. With a little ingenuity you'd have no problem mounting it on the bird cage so it is at or above pooping-bird level.
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