Pigeons – Pest Management Professional

Photo: Lee Karney, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bugwood.org

The sort-of squirrelly bird catches the headline

It has not escaped our attention that a variety of instances where birds are just being birds has been making...

10 steps for improving your bird control revenue

Creating a revenue stream from bird control service is one thing; maintaining wealth from this offering is quite another. Where...

Pigeons aren’t ‘just rats with wings’

When you’re 5 years old, every adult is an authority on every topic, and the nuances of communication often go...

Bird Management: Not as Simple as One Might Think

To many, bird management equates to merely tackling pigeons, sparrows and starlings. But our industry must foresee myriad other challenges,...

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Fact vs. Fiction: Pigeons

Fiction: Feeding pigeons makes the world a better place and doesn’t hurt anybody. Fact: Feeding pigeons, deliberately or unintentionally, is the...

Dos and Don’ts: Pigeons

An essential part of eliminating pest pigeons is safety-centric, pre-environmental and postenvironmental cleanup of biological waste. Effective interventions result in...

Word on the Web: Pigeons as pets, pests and problems

Sometimes the general public has a difficult time wrapping its collective head around the idea a bird, particularly the pigeon,...

The potential consequence of de-extinction

When pest management professionals (PMPs) think of nuisance birds, the first species that usually comes to mind is the rock...

Did You Know?: Birds

The domestic pigeon has evolved for more than 30 million years and is a descendant of the European rock dove....