Pigeon deterrents work to a certain extent based on the area the pigeons live and the number of pigeons flocking in a locality. Adverse pigeon culling methods are necessary for some regions with high pigeon pressure. Other sites with minimal issues can use effective deterrents like sound or visual disturbances or effigies to drive away pigeons. A local pigeon control and removal service can advise you of the best course of action.
What are pigeon deterrents?
Pigeon deterrents control the pigeon population in industrial areas, public parks, or agricultural lands. Pigeons multiply at an enormous speed, causing a nuisance to the common public, shitting everywhere, and consuming a huge amount of food in agricultural areas. A pair of pigeons will multiply into hundreds of pigeons within three to four years, and the property owner will struggle to clean the never stopping droppings.
Pigeon deterrents are objects that emit light and sound to frighten the pigeons and make them fly away. Effigies like a plastic owl, hawk, or snake, which are natural predators of the pigeon, are also used to drive them away. Visual deterrents use laser lights, CDs, and other shiny materials to reflect light and heat, forcing the pigeons out of their nest. Audible deterrents create sudden huge sounds or continuously emit irritating noise to drive the pigeons.
Ovo Control provides pigeon deterrent as a solution after analyzing the site that needs the deterrents. They guide the land owners regarding installing the most suitable pigeon deterrent based on the size of the area and the number of devices required. Their experts know how far the pigeons will move when they hear a sudden noise or light and help the land owners install deterrents at specific intervals. The lights and sound emitting devices aim to drive the pigeons out of the land’s vicinity instead of harming them physically.
How effective are they?
It is vital to remember pigeons are more or less like humans. They can hear the sounds and see the light we see. They cannot hear the ultrasonic sound inaudible to human ears. Using deterrents will cause a certain level of discomfort to the humans too. Pigeons driven out of their nesting area from a park or an industrial place will not go far. They will find the next best alternative near the area to hide. They will try by all means to come back after the deterrents stop working.
Like humans, the pigeons also get used to certain sounds and lights if they get exposed to them constantly. They realize the plastic owl or hawk is harmless and will not harm them after a short while. They start coming back to the area where they build their nests. Pigeon control experts refer to this scenario as the “Pigeon pressure” of the site. If the pigeon pressure is high, the deterrents will work only temporarily.
The land owners must switch to other adverse methods like using a net or culling to capture the pigeons and release them into the wild. Landowners can secure areas with light pigeon pressure c for several months using a single deterrent or collective deterrents. Pigeons will get scared easily by the deterrents when their number is low and they are young.
How to use collective deterrents?
Collective deterrents usage involves installing sonic and ultrasonic sound emitters in the nook and corner of the field of the park. They get designed for huge areas where using physical nets is not possible. The deterrents often mimic the sound of the natural predator pigeons instinctively fear. The pigeons will come out of their nests disturbed by the sound and see the puppets of their natural predators like snakes, owls, and hawks.
The pigeons get fooled that there is a real threat and flee from the area as quickly as possible. Another collective deterrent method is using propane cannons to create huge shooting sounds and combine scarecrows that look like humans trying to harm them. Some companies use light-reflecting sources to drive the pigeons out of their nest and threaten them with actual captors or predators to drive them away from the agricultural land or the park.
Alternate methods
Using collective deterrents works better for preventing the birds from returning to the old area. But the birds recognize the temporary threat is over sooner or later, scanning the area non-stop, and start coming back after some time. Alternate methods of pigeon control like using repellents, fencing, and nets get recommended if the pigeon pressure in the area is uncontrollable.
Spikes, wires, and slides get installed in the points where the pigeons nest regularly or try to enter the industrial properties. Agricultural areas use fogs and vapor repellents to drive away the pigeons. The land owners must do it before they build the nest and lay eggs to prevent them from constantly returning to the area. Pigeon culling methods like shooting them for meat or using traps to capture them for selling get used when hundreds of pigeons disturb the area.
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