Pigeons- they gotta go

[MTGomer]

Alright, I need the best pigeon removal remedies for the suburbs.

When I lived in Butte, America we shot them. Sometimes with pellet guns, sometimes with sub sonic .22 lr.
We were even paid by downtown businesses to do this and the police allowed it. Like I said... America.

Now, I live in an Arizona suburb. 1/3-1/2 my street have moved in from California in the last year. I don’t think standing on the street and plinking pigeons off my roof is an option.
What do I do? Poisoned corn? A fake owl? Let’s hear it.

 

[rwc101]

All I know is that a judo point from a crossbow will somehow pass through an Eurasian Collared Dove and it will survive long enough to die in the neighbors yard. I'm thinking slingshot next.

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

Stick with the BB gun. It's still Arizona

Try the Cousin Eddie outfit like your shitters full and the yuppies should cower in fear inside their abodes.

 

[MTLabrador]

They’re pretty easy to trap. At least collared doves are. Then give them to someone who wants them for dog training.

 

[madtom]

When I was growing up, we didn’t have any pigeons. Now you have so many you want to poison them.

 

[1_pointer]

I'd be in trapping mode. There are multiple commercial made traps or instructions online on how to build one.

Bird dog guys would love to have them! Other option is the eat them. They be good eats IME.

 

[ccc23454]

I would focus on removing the bigger vermon first: Californians! LOL. Then stick to BB gun but my buddy used a 22 pistol surpressed to kill off his squirrel problems, that was so quite all you heard was slight pop and the action working, amazingly quite

 

[runningmt]

Collared doves are delicious, maybe pigeons are too, but I’ve seen too many living in their own guano to ever have any desire to eat them.

I have a good friend who traps pigeons for dog training, not sure of the equipment he is using, but I’m sure a quick search on the Google machine would give some results for the right direction.

 

[Nick87]

9mm Californians wont think anything of it.

 

[D4570]

Birds are hard, LOTS of EPA restrictions to wade through.
Years ago I was an exterminator. Even 40 years ago it was hard.
We had a special permit to use what was called ( I think) tanglefoot.
Kind of like a mouse glue board only a pipe. They would land and get stuck.
That was not the answer, it was there flopping around. It scared the other pigeons and they stayed away, as in someone else's problem.
Now I think the only thing you can do is net or Pokeiy things on their perch. We also would use a very nasty Poison mixed in grease and would spread it where they would walk in it Works great, but anything that touched it would die including your Californian neighbors. They stopped that just as I started. DANG.

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[AvidIndoorsman]

Here me out.

Pile of corn...

Sign pointing to said corn...

Hang an anvil in a tree above the corn..

 

[npaden]

We use poison corn at our office. There are rules on how much poison you can use. Not really sure it helps that much.

 

[Nameless Range]

Alright, I need the best pigeon removal remedies for the suburbs.

When I lived in Butte, America we shot them. Sometimes with pellet guns, sometimes with sub sonic .22 lr.
We were even paid by downtown businesses to do this and the police allowed it. Like I said... America.

Now, I live in an Arizona suburb. 1/3-1/2 my street have moved in from California in the last year. I don’t think standing on the street and plinking pigeons off my roof is an option.
What do I do? Poisoned corn? A fake owl? Let’s hear it.

G*damn, if Butte isn't one of the finest towns in America.

 

[JEL]

Collared doves are delicious, maybe pigeons are too, but I’ve seen too many living in their own guano to ever have any desire to eat them.

I have a good friend who traps pigeons for dog training, not sure of the equipment he is using, but I’m sure a quick search on the Google machine would give some results for the right direction.

The ones that hang around the farm are delicious. They are mostly grain fed though. Not sure about city dwellers.

 

[Phaseolus]

Beep, beep

 

[MarvB]

Here me out.

Pile of corn...

Sign pointing to said corn...

Hang an anvil in a tree above the corn..

Californians like corn that much?

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

Californians like corn that much?

naa but if you substitute corn for Kale, you've solved all of COs problems.

 

[MarvB]

Except for teaching the pigeons to read....

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

Except for teaching the pigeons to read....

Pigeons Can Read — Sort of, Study Finds

The most adept of the pigeons in the study, after more intensive training, learned between 26 and 57 words.

www.livescience.com

 

[TriStar Hunt]

Net Gun? Please say Net Gun.