by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 28, 2015 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes, Pigeons in the News
Wes Charnock spotted this hot pink pigeon outside St Mary’s Church in Stockport and took pics to post online and find out why it is so coloured.
A pink pigeon spotted in Stockport has been baffling passersby.
The brightly coloured bird was found this afternoon outside St Mary’s Church in the town centre.
It appears to have had half its feathers dyed an impressive hot pink colour – but the reason behind it is a mystery.
Wes Charnock, 33, spotted the bird as he walked through Stockport town centre this afternoon with his sons.
He posted pictures of it online – with people speculating it could have been dyed to be released at a wedding could be a racing pigeon given a distinctive marking by its owner.
Wes Charnock FacebookWes Charnock spotted this hot pink pigeon outside St Mary’s Church in StockportWes Charnock spotted this hot pink pigeon outside St Mary’s Church in Stockport
Passer-by Wes told the MEN: “I was just walking through Stockport town centre with my kids to buy sausage rolls when we spotted it and they wanted to feed it so it could have something for tea.
“It was outside St Mary’s Church and seemed really tame.
“It didn’t walk away from us like most pigeons do, it was happy to stand a few feet away.
“It did seem tired, so I thought it might have been in a race but I’ve never seen a pigeon dyed pink before.
“I posted pictures online to see what people thought, and they have been suggesting it was used in a wedding or is a racing pigeon.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 27, 2015 | Bird Netting
Pigeons. London’s over-run with them. Hobbling around, gobbling up our leftovers. But have you ever seen a baby pigeon? No, neither have we, although we’d not really thought about it until one reader, Amanda, asked where they all are.
Do pigeons hatch fully grown, like some sort of avian Benjamin Button? Freaks us out just thinking about it, if we’re honest. So we spoke to the lovely people at the RSPB (Royal Society for Protection of Birds), who reassured us that this is not
the case.
According to Ben Andrews, RSPB’s Wildlife Adviser,
Young pigeons (known as “squabs”) look really different to the adult birds we see, they are yellow and fluffy, but they are always in the nest for a long period of time, often around 30 days or so. By the time they emerge from the nest they basically look like adult pigeons and therefore people don’t obviously notice them as babies even if they are still young birds.
So there’s the answer. For other, not entirely serious answers to the whereabouts of baby pigeons, click here.
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Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 26, 2015 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes, Pigeons in the News
ALMOST 800 pigeons roosting on Southend Hospital were killed last year.
The hospital called in pest control to deal with the birds, which they said were a health risk. The dead birds were used as fodder for birds of prey.
Jan China, director of estates and facilities, at Southend Hospital said feral pigeons had caused a lot of problems on the site and were a potential health hazard, particularly in operating theatres.
She said: “Large numbers of pigeons present at Southend Hospital have historically created a lot of mess. They have been known to enter the premises via small gaps in windows which can affect the cleanliness of the patient care environment and plant/ventilation rooms which provides fresh air supply to the theatres.
“The trust invests in deterrents to keep feral pigeons away from trust premises as far as reasonably practicable. These installations include netting to deter feral pigeons from entering particular areas and spiking on window ledges to prevent roosting as well as the periodic use of a bird scarer. Any birds that become trapped in netting are released.”
The director said pest control companies broke the pigeon’s necks and the bodies were then frozen and given to wildlife centres.
She added: “All work in relation to control of feral pigeons is undertaken in accordance with the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and Animal Welfare Act 2006. Where these methods cause additional problems or become ineffective, the trust employs a licensed pest control company to humanely remove the pigeons in accordance with the Act. 790 pigeons were removed by the contracted pest control company during 2014, and they dealt with the removal and disposal of the birds.”
Lauren Hollas from Southend Animal Aid criticised the action. She said: “I’m quite appalled and shocked to hear this. There must be a more humane alternative to killing so many pigeons. There are ways of deterring them. It’s brutal.
“Even netting can cause issues. They can get stuck.
“The hospitals needs to find ways of stopping them getting in the building or roosting on the building. This is a quick fix, but it must be costing the hospital a lot of money.
“Pigeons are very succesful at breeding, but people need to give them some credit rather than dismiss them as vermin.
They are wildlife just trying to survive and they were a lot of help to us during the war.”
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Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 25, 2015 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeons in the News
BIRDS of prey are being bought in to tackle a pigeon problem which is keeping a visitor attraction’s most popular residents indoors.
The Deep aquarium in Hull has commissioned a local falconer to scare off pigeons, which have been roosting and making a mess on the attraction.
The attraction’s gentoo penguins have not been allowed out of their new enclosure onto an outdoor balcony because of fears they could pick up avian diseases from the pigeon droppings.
Chief executive Colin Brown said: “The penguins have this area outside where they can go, a little balcony, but the pigeons are nesting above them and they carry a lot of avian diseases, so we don’t feel we can let out the penguins in case they catch something from the pigeon droppings. “Equally we don’t want to kill the pigeons.”
He said they had “pretty dramatic reaction” the first time they tried flying a bird of prey with seagulls which also hang round the building going “beserk” – although the pigeons stood their ground.
He expects the problem to take some months to solve with the help of a five-year-old peregrine falcon and an 18-month-old Harris hawk.
He said: “A number of major events including Wimbledon have successfully scared the pigeons away using this method, so we thought it was worth a try.
“When the falcon and hawk are flown in a specific routine, it alters the pigeons’ roosting and nesting patterns.”
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
by Pigeon Patrol | Jul 24, 2015 | 4-S Gel Bird repellent, Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes, Pigeons in the News, UltraSonic Bird Control
Another slow news day, another bird-themed Japanese Twitter picture making the rounds.
To put it lightly, Japan’s major cities have a bit of a pigeon problem. According to Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies, the pigeon (or, holy crap, technically the “feral rock dove”), is an invasive species to the Japanese mainland that now inhabits essentially every speck of land, including, even, some distant islands belonging to Japan.
As with invasive pigeons in other cities throughout the world, Japanese pigeons have largely adapted to an urban environment, losing their instinctive fear of humans, nesting in and among buildings and, apparently, even frequenting McDonald’s.
A visitor to a Hachioji-area McDonald’s on the outskirts of Tokyo proper snapped this photo recently of a trio of pigeons just hanging out at one of the restaurant’s tables, presumably having a chat about how much they love pooping on things and enjoying some fry crumbs and a Coke.
Japanese media and Twitter aggregates picked it up and the photo now has the Japanese Internet buzzing.
While most Netizens seem to be having a quiet chuckle about it, at least some are reacting with genuine concern. Pigeons are, after all, notorious harbingers of disease, including something called cryptococcosis, which doesn’t sound pleasant at all, and one does have to wonder why there don’t appear to be any employees attempting to escort the animals to the nearest bronze statue or something.
Then again, there’s a chance they were legitimately paying customers, in which case demanding that they leave purely because of their feathery exteriors would be asking for a discrimination lawsuit from the pigeons’ lawyer.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
