How To Get Rid of Pigeons From Your Home

Pigeon control is needed around your home. This is a fact. Pigeons are just about everywhere. They claim your home by roosting and nesting on it. Do not feed the pigeons. This just encourages them and brings about more pigeons. You can easily envision a scene from a movie where a little old lady is sitting on the park bench feeding the pigeons, and soon there are hundreds of pigeons surrounding her. It is best to keep this scene in the movies, and not your backyard. Pigeons will gather in large flocks, and this means large messes and long-term damage to your property. Millions of dollars are spent each year on repairing the damage their droppings make and cleaning up after pest birds.

Pigeon droppings and all pest bird’s droppings are damaging to your home structures. It can ruin wood, brickwork, paint, concrete, canvas, and even metals around the home. The debris can get into air conditioners, vents and the rain gutters. They are not only damaging but they are also hazardous. Pigeon’s droppings that accumulate are rich in fungi, parasites and bacteria. There are over 60 known diseases that are transmittable to humans and pose serious health risks. The droppings and their nests also have ticks, fleas, mites and bedbugs, none of which you want inside your home. These are the reasons you want to not feed the birds and get rid of pigeons from your property.

How To Get Rid of Pigeons From Your Home:

There are a few different Pigeon Control methods that will get rid of the pigeons from your property. There are scare deterrents that are always a good place to start. They are very low cost and can be put in place immediately. Flash tape is simplest and most cost effective way to begin deterring the pigeons. The strips of commercial-grade Mylar rustles in the breeze which reflects light creating an audio/visual distraction zone that disorients the birds and scares them away. The tape can be hung just about anywhere. There are also scare balloons and reflective eye flat diverters that can also be hung just about anywhere to scare the birds off.

Bird spikes are a well-known means of bird control often used to keep the pigeons off your home and other structures. The spikes have been proven so successful that you can get them in a variety materials and styles. Plastic bird spikes are made of a rigid U.V. resistant polycarbonate that is unbreakable. They can be glued or nailed down to just about any surface. They come in a variety of colors that aids in their invisibility factor, which makes these very desirable for home use. Another kind of spike that will keep pigeons away are the stainless steel spikes. They are very durable. They are made of a non-reflective metal finish and are the spikes that are most recommended by architects, government agencies and contractors. There are also girder spikes which are great for keeping pigeons and other large pest birds from landing on girders or I-beams. These typically have adjustable “C-clamps” to fit any size girder. Lastly, gutter spikes are ideal for keeping large pest birds like seagulls, crows, and pigeons from sitting on or in gutters and will stop the gutters from being dirtied up by the nesting materials and bird droppings.