A device for keeping birds, which device, in use, can be positioned under roof tiles of a pitched roof which comprises a roof panel, roof laths attached to the roof panel, tiling battens attached at right angles to the tiling battens and roof tiles arranged on the tiling battens and comprises a main surface, which has an upper side, a bottom side and an edge which, in use, bears against a tiling batten in a substantially sealing manner, bird-inhibiting means, which extend at a distance along the edge and extend from the main surface in such a manner that, in use, bird-inhibiting means touch the roof tiles above and in which the device comprises supporting means for supporting the device on roof panels, roof laths and/or tiling battens in such a manner that, in use, the base surface is at a distance from the roof panel, as well as a pitched roof comprising such a device for keeping birds.