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Name: Elfrieda
Status: other
Age: 40s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 4/26/2004
Question:
A pair of pigeons has built a nest in an alcove to the side of an entrance to the building I work in. The nest has been dismantled several times, but they keep coming back. We'd like to get rid of them, as their feces are all over the stairs and being tracked into the building. How can we permanently discourage this nest building? Someone has placed a sign next to the nest saying we should leave it alone and remove it after the eggs have been laid. Any validity to that? Will they keep coming back? How many times a year do they lay eggs? Thanks very much.

Replies:
Exclusion devices and materials are often reccomended, this is one COMMERCIAL site offering information and devices:

http://www.unexco.com/pigeons/

J. Elliott

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