Pigeons on ledge

If you live in an urban area, you’ve seen this image before: pigeons roosting on a ledge, leaving droppings and nest materials in their wake. You need to get rid of them at all costs!The following tactics are not recommended, but if you want to WASTE your money and time trying to get rid of pigeons, you will want to do the following:

• Constantly “Shoo” away the pigeons
• Pay for professional cleanup services (this can get REALLY expensive)
  • Also, it is a recurring cost.. cleaning up doesn’t solve the problem
• Make your own homemade pigeon spikes
• Use sound repellers or visual scares

Really… do you want to do any of the above? Try this:

The best way to stop pigeons from roosting

Simply put, installing pigeon spikes (another name for “Bird Spikes”)will be the best solution to your problem. 99.9% of the time, pigeons will stop roosting if spike strips are installed.

Imagine yourself trying to rest on a bed of nails. Just the thought illicits thoughts of discomfort and pain. Just like us, birds are aware that sharp objects are painful, and avoid landing and roosting on the pigeon spikes as they would avoid any other source of pain.

Why use Pigeon Spikes

Spike strips provide a physical barrier that make it physically more difficult for birds to occupy the area. Sound repellers and visual devices provide no such coverage, as they are only sensory irritants. If birds need food or shelter bad enough, they will overcome such obstacles easily. Pigeon Spikes go beyond sensory irritation and provide a more effect coverage by directly excluding birds from areas.

Do I Need Pigeon Spikes?

You need to install pigeon spikes when:

• Pigeons are roosting in an undesired location
• Pigeons are causing health risks
• Acidic droppings and messes from pigeons are causing damage
• You have an are where droppings are causing visual/aesthetic problems
• Pigeons are roosting in an area that humans also occupy

Where to Buy Pigeon Spikes:

Pigeon spikes are available at a number of online retailers.

If you are a facilities manager, contractor, pest control operator, or are purchasing for a large operation, we suggest viewing Bird-X’s spike selection. They take large orders online, so rest assured that you’ll get a good deal.

If you’re looking for a simple set of spikes for your home, small business, or any other single-unit operation, check out:

• Best deals/cheapest spikes are usually found at Amazon (click here)
• Pigeon Spikes at Unbeatable Sale
• Pidgin Spikes at Shop.com
• Pigeon Spike Strips on Buy.com

Roof Spikes

How to Get Rid of Birds on Your Roof

Roof Spikes

Roof spikes simply another type of Bird Spikes. Well, not really another type, but more of a synonym of the term geared toward a specific application of needle strips on roofs.

Roof spike strips are generally used (yea, you guessed it) on roofs, to keep birds like pigeons, starlings, crows, vultures, buzzards, and sea gulls from roosting on your valuable property.

Birds can cause damage to roofs by pecking, building nests, or simply leaving their acidic droppings that can slowly eat away at your shingles, tar, or other roofing material. They can also cause health problems: inhaled bird dropping cause BIG problems for human respiratory systems. *Note: We’ll soon have a section up on Bird-Related Illnesses to go over various types of diseases in humans that stem from contact with birds or bird waste.

For businesses, birds and bird droppings are unsightly and may lead to customer unease or disgust if it is in an area with any human traffic. So, it is imperative to stop birds before the get a chance to land on any rooftop or roof ledging.

The best place to get the cheapest roof spikes is usually here at Unbeatable Sale

Photograph courtesy of http://www.celtic-developments.co.uk

Installing Bird Spikes

Bird-Flite Spikes by Bird Barrier

Here’s a great video on how to install bird-flite spikes. In addition to installation instructions, Bird Barrier’s video also provides an overview of their product, best practices, and examples of where potential applications.