Oh forgot to mention. You have to constantly bother them…. day & nite. Make it unpleasant for them & unsafe to raise their young on your property. BB Guns work good at night. they react slow so you can get in more shots. If you don’t like shooting like I do go out & buy the pigeon traps/cage. Those work too but the traps cost from $90-$175. I don’t really care for the war on terrorism but this war on pigeons is pretty fun

Well we all know Pigeons are living creatures but so are fish, chickens, cows & pigs and most of the world has no problem killing & eating them. Survival of the fit I call it. I suggest killing them by any means. Pigeons aren’t just dumb ol birds. My sitituation; I just purchased a foreclosed home about a month ago & I noticed about 2 dozen pigeons on the roof. Looked like a block party. I figured they would fly away soon so no big deal right? Wrong! These mother%$#kers started sending “air mail” special delivery all over my wife & I’s cars. I talked to the guy next door & he said the old lady that lived there raised them in a pigeon-coop & let them go when she got kicked out the house. So I figuured they are not leaving so I have to make em leave. OWLs & HORNS dDO NOT WORK!! Pigeons just sit on top of the damn owl & drop poop all over it. Took it to the next level with a BB Gun & A high presure water hose. I used the hose to knock down the 2 nest they had & I attacked (assuming to be a female) with a $h%t load of bullets(haven’t seen her since lol). I’m down to about 4 pigeons left that come to perch as I’m leaving for work. Don’t worry they are next. I would have loved a non-violent way to remove them but they are stubborn creatures and besides I don’t think a rat under your sink would get love and an easy escape route from you. I say that to say this….BB GUNS DO work if you know how to shot. I aim for thier eyes. If they don’t fly away keep shooting. I also used water ballons with bleach (Use with extreme caution) in it

You may use Bird Repellent Gel to stop your problems.

We have a bird feeder which attracts small birds - this is what it is supposed to do. The pigeons have now started to fly in when the small birds do and wait for them to feed and drop excess seeds. The pigeons then fly down and pick up the excess seed. We’ve tried taking the feeder away for a while to try to get the pigeons to forget where the food is but the small birds come looking for the hanging basket. Is there any easy way to still feed the small birds but get rid of the pigeons? We can’t put poison down as I would be afraid the small birds would eat it and it’s illegal to have any form of gun where we live.

The big cat pellet gun. 1200 fps.

I hate these flying rats too. and I have got an idiot for a neighbor downstairs. He wont speak to me but will feed the hell out of these flying menaces! They are so big they look like turkeys! I got fed up yesterday and got me some thumb tacks and electric tape and taped it to the rails of my patio where they love to sit and shit. gone! they are sitting on someone elses patio now just hating me! I laugh in their face! now i have to figure out how to arm the cement posts on my patio so they cannot perch there. I am thinking about 2 sided tape. cheap and it worked!

im gonna try the white rice method..i have one question does the white rice have to be cooked or raw…….

I’ve done it !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a first floor apartment with a large window. The vermin perched on the roof of the window, the window ledges and then had their kids dowen the side of the window. My boyfriend shot lots of them last year. But, of course more came back. Then they started to get quite vicious - fighting on the window ledges. So ……….. I got hold of three very big and long morrors. I put the mirrors along the bottom of the window, inside, facing outwards. They came back every day for three weeks - but they have never landed again. Their own reflection - of themselves moving/flying terrifies them and they don’t land. I have lived here for 7 years and can’t believe how easy it actually has been to get rid of them!

so i just got this nice bmw 325is out of luck cuz it’s not like i could afford one and we have this one spot in our driveway just under the bill board on our property that we refer to as the bird shit spot. they crapped all over my beautiful car and i mean all over it i was so pissed. screw humane methods i ordered a bb gun and imma go rambo status on em, hence the war cry ahhhhhhhhhhhh. i hear if you destroy the nest they freak out and go away, if only there was a bb grenade, i smell blood and victory. if you can get em to eat asprin it’ll kill em i think for the tip portion of this comment.

Check out this *awesome* YouTube video that depicts a motion-activated sprinkler blasting pigeons - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdYc86AA8M0

Unfortunately I don’t think a motion-activated sprinkler is feasible for us, but it may work for some of you very determined DIY types.

We are still struggling to keep the pigeons off our balcony - our latest technique is to use netting to make it harder for them to access it, and to cover all of our container garden in netting (#$*# pigeons just adore trying to nest in pots, of course killing all of our seedlings in the process).

this info is real good

try RAT POISON, in small enough crumbs to swallow (even if you have to smash the blocks with a hammer). it works. wait a few days and then expect to see one or two dead pigeons a day and none others. this was our only solution. bbguns don’t work. the bb’s just bounce off the bird. yes, it’s heartless. do you want to walk in pigeon shit every day, carrying it into the house and spreading who knows what? do you want to clean their mess endlessly? humans are worth far more than pigeons in a civilized society and in the order of nature. the real responsibility for controlling this enormous nuisance and potential spreader of disease are governments in cities and towns; not citizens. amen.

2 things I must say, firstly not all renters don’t care, I am one and for the 2 months since I moved into this property I have been working like a slave to tidy up and manicure the gardens, so much so I have lost 6 kg’s in that time.
My pigeon problem is about 30 of the flying rats in a beautiful massive palm tree in the middle of my back garden, after 2 months of cleaning up the rest of the property I finally faced the disgust and horror of trying to cut out and mulch over 100 dead palm fronds covered in years of pigeon mess, the palm is now down to about 25% of the foliage it had, 4 nests disposed of, but not one pigeon down, all of them now sleep on top of each other in what fronds are left.
I will try the cd’s on string I read above, don’t think I can spread anything sticky on the tree though without risking killing it, would love some snow balls to try but we just came out of a once in a 100 yr heat wave, and we are about to break 40 degrees celsius again in the next few days, now I think of it if I had a snow ball I would eat it:-)
Don’t know if a spotlight in the tree or maybe some stereo speakers would help?

We have a problem with them also—–mostly its the noise we hate.
I’m going to make a rubber glove gun—–PVC tube with the finger of a rubber glove taped to one end. Simply load it with ammo , pull back the rubber finger —aim & release !!—Accuate and effective. I’m goint to find spherical ice cube trays—–small ones—large ones will lock in glove fingers.

Also take note of this—birds have very fast metabolisms—digest food fast–eat & pooh almost in same minute– if you can have a bird digest a pain killer with coedine—it will make thier liver fail due to overload and the bird dies ( half a tablet in a potato fry). Pigeons dont swallow large stuff—- so you might be able to soak grains with the tablets ( increasing the quantity over time so they get used to smell/taste) and eventually — dead meat !!

For the last two years pigeons had taken over our balcony.They were especially bothersome in the winter for some reason. The winter hasn’t quite arrived in Toronto yet, and I haven’t seen any on our balcony for a few months. SO…………. I decided to go out on the balcony which we had not used since we’d moved in and the mess was DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!
There was a couple of WHEELBARROWS full of pigeon crap on the floor and every piece of furniture was covered in the revolting residue. The windowsill was also covered as was some of the window. UUUKKKKK!
It was a big job to clean and the worse task I’ve ever undertaken…
A neighbour had been feeding these vermin and even had a nest or two on her balcony a while back. Not only has she stopped feeding them ( we had told her we’d kill them if she kept attracting them ), but one of her relatives who is apparently, unlike her, SANE, actually put a net up on her balcony. Hence this could be the reason I haven’t been bothered for a while by the filthy creatures. Last winter I had purchased a couple of large pans of frozen lasagna as my daughter loves the stuff, but I soon realized I had no room in my freezer. I therefore opened the window onto the balcony and dropped one, still in the grocery bag, onto the balcony. The weather had been about -20 celsius for a few days straight, so I thought it would be fine. I retrieved it a week later and never thought much about it til I later looked down from the window ledge a discovered a big fat frozen dead pigeon! Cause of Death: Clocked by a frozen lasagna.

Try using a large airhorn whenever they are around. Walmart sells them. Keep doing it every time they come around. They hate it and it will eventually train them to stay away. They don’t come near my house unless it is a young pidgeon that doesn’t know the routine yet. Good luck

I also had fogot to mention one other important fact to my problem. The pigeons in my back yard do not crap in my back yard. They eat all the food I give to the other birds and the squirrels and then they fly away to only return the next day.

Water gun does not effect them because my husband made a sling shot to get rid of them. They fly and circle around and return to my back yard. These pigeons just give me the finger and still do what they want to do. They have zero fear.

I just want them gone because they are multipling daily and they eat to much food that it is to expensive to feed the wild life I want to feed. I just do not want to stop putting out food because I have a very larg back yard and to watch the wild life is of beauty. I tried feeders, but the pigeons just band together and knock it down and eat. For pigeons they are pretty damn smart and fearless. I hate them.

Any solutions; reasonable soultions that do not require death.

Thank you.

I do not have a tip, but am searching for a reasonable solution to my pigeon problem.

I do not live in the city I live on Long Island and I have never notice pigeons, except a few years ago.

All the solutions to this problem will effect all of my welcomed wildlife that I feed and I do not want to loose all the birds and the squirrels. I only want to loose the pigeons because they continue to grow in population daily and they eat way to much that it is now becoming to expensive to feed the wild life that I want to feed.

Everyone that I have spoken with that feed the wild life does not have a pigeon problem except for me and I do not know why.

Does anyone out there have a solution that will not effect the other wild life that I want and enjoy feeding?

Thank you.

P.S. I do not want to shoot the pigeons because to me that would be very cruel because they are a living and breathing thing.

Cut outs of cats will not help because the pigeons are not afraid of cats and / or people. Cut outs of owls, hawks, and etc. will only effect negatively the wild life that I want in my back yard.

Well its not the best trick but my building has 5 pigeons that apparently were born there (somewhere on the building generations ago before my time) I,ve heard once that happens they are imprinted on the location. So I got soo mad at their cooing that i bought one of those super water gun blasters that shoot about 10 feet. every time i see them i dose them, they are smart enough to fly away just out of reach, BUT they don’t bother me too much anymore, still once or twice a week, but mostly they annoy my neighbors, but most of them have followed my lead and gotten a water gun, so slowly they are spending less time at our building. Not so funny story, a pigeon sat on balcony, I sprayed and sprayed but it wouldn’t move, I got super close and it flew off, but left behind an egg, I grabbed it and tossed it off the balcony - a second to late to realize the egg was very wet- AGGGHH fresh pigeon ass on my hand….UGH!! I hate these these dirty infested creatures…..

We brought a holiday cottage on a beautiful island where the previous owners had erected a dovecote,(fools!) complete with pigeons that Sh#t all over the roof, on the verandah, on the windows, over the door ways…..our first holiday was spent shovelling mountains of crap away and scraping it off every surface within a 3mtr radius of the house. we knocked over and removed the dovecote,complete with birds and nests inside,the bastards came back! Tried the bird tape, what a joke, they perch next to it! Tried feeding them rat sack,they ate it, didn’t die though! Throwing stuff pointless. What to do?