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 get rid of 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.. “
The proper way to kill pigeons, is with an avicide, a lethal chemical which is compounded into a food that pigeons like to eat. 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.
“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 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. .
Dovid mentioned yet one more form of pigeon deterrent. This is an ancient technique involving implantation of tiny spears or projections into the roof or other roosting surface. However, he told me, this technique is not 100% effective, as the pigeons will frequently roost in between the spears.
I don’t know how you feel, but after talking with Dovid, I had 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 a year. 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
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