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What to Do when Pigeons Roost on Your Property?

Hi,and welcome to another episode of Day in the Life of Dovid Davis Pest Specialist. 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. I like many people have
walkways and a porch that has been turned into a bathroom by noisome pigeons, so the last time Dovid and I chatted, I asked him to talk about pigeons.

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 any where 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 said. "To kill them you are going to use an avicide." Use 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.

"Now if you just want to stop the pigeons from roosting," Dovid said, "you have products 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 tothat 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 get some more details, and Dovid told me that with the avicide, you don't have to kill all the pigeons. You can use it onetime, 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 lawn 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.

I don't know about you, but Dovid's talk gave me a lot of satisfaction. If I want to pay the pigeons back with a vengeance, I can get rid of them with the avicide. If I am in a more merciful mood, I can use the gel and still keep them away from the ledge for over ayear. Of course they might move over to another ledge, whereas the avicide will keep them off my entire property for a long time.

We'll that's it for another episode of Day in the Life of Dovid Davis Pest Specialist. Thank-you for reading this article, and I wish you all a pest free day.