Getting Rid of Pigeons: A Pest Specialist Tells Us How

Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Dovid Davis, the Director of A # 1 Pest Control, a Baltimore pest control company, about how to kill pigeons Dovid is the most intelligent and knowledgeable pest specialist I know of, so whenever I get a spare moment, I ask him to talk about an area of his work. Like many of you, I have a porch which has been turned into a bathroom by pigeons roosting on an upper ledge, so I wanted Dovid to tell me how to get rid of them. Dovid told me that pigeons are rodents with wings, rodents that fly. In fact, he told me, they are called the rats of the sky, because, they go anywhere, and will eat anything. There are lots of different types of pigeons, but Dovid said he would limit his comments to urban pigeons. "They are domesticated birds. People fed them, but you can't pet them, as they will fly away, but they don't bite. They will roost anywhere that is comfortable to them, that is weather protected and close to their food source. And their food is grain and garbage."

"Well I am glad to hear that pigeons don't bite," I said, "but what do you do if you have them on your ledge and they are messing up your porch.

"Pigeon elimination," Dovid replied emphatically.. "
To kill them you are going to use an avicide." But, you must use the avicide with extreme caution, because it is very lethal. In America, you have to be licensed to use it. The avicide looks like cracked corn." Dovid told me that if he spreads it out at noon on the lawn of a home infested with pigeons, in ten minutes, the pigeons will be squawking and literally falling down dead, right from the skies.

But suppose you don't want to kill the pigeons, or more specifically, you don't want dead pigeons falling all over your yard, and possibly poisoning your pet cat when he tries to turn them into a meal? Dovid explained that there are products that will just stop pigeons from roosting. The two most effective are called, "Roost No More," and "Hot Foot." These basically are silica gel with pepper. The bird alights on the ledge, sticks its foot in the gel, and it burns them. So they leave and won't go back to that ledge. The gel works for more than a year. It is sticky stuff that sticks around for months, and is not affected by water."

I wanted to know specifically, how many treatments with avcide are needed to get rid of roosting pigeons. Dovid told me that it generally only takes one treatment. The reason , he said, is that its not necessary to kill all the pigeons. You can use it one time, kill say 15/25 infesting pigeons, and the rest will stay away. .

Another alternative to the avicide or the gel are tiny spears which can be put in the ground or on a roof or ledge and which deter pigeons from roosting. This is an ancient pigeon determent, however, the spears don't work 100% of the time.

After listening to Dovid talk, I felt I had a complete armament to do battle with pigeons. If I want to be vengeful, for messing up my walkway, I can call a pest specialist and use the avicide. If I am in a more merciful mood, I or the pest specialist can spread out the gel. Of course they might move over to another ledge, whereas the avicide will keep them off my entire property for a long time.

Well thank-you for reading this article and I wish you a pest free day

Article Source: http://www.free-article-info.com/ArticleDashboard

A # 1 Pest Control is a Baltimore pest control company. We specialize in Spider and Bug Eradication, Termite Eradication, Pigeon Contr

Please Rate this Article

5 out of 54 out of 53 out of 52 out of 51 out of 5 

Not yet Rated

Click the XML Icon Above to Receive Pets Articles Via RSS!