by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 19, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes
Hygiene concerns have prompted the Parkes Shire to expand its pigeon control program.
The Council says the birds have moved from an old open cut gold mine near Peak Hill, into the town centre.
The spokesman Stephen Campbell says it is a health concern and many of the eradication strategies previously available are no longer approved.
He said the council would now focus on how many pigeons were at the old water treatment facility.
“It’s just hygiene and maintenance, I guess,” Mr Campbell said.
“They block gutters and other problems but it’s common to a lot of areas and the measures of actually treating the problem are limited, nearly limited to trapping, so it’s a painstaking exercise.”
Mr Campbell said trapping programs would continue.
“We’d be all looking for an easy answer to this problem because I think a lot of towns are suffering from pigeons.
“Out at Peak Hill the re-working of the old mine diggings, I guess, stirred up the pigeons that were roosting there and they’ve sort of moved into town, so over the last few years we’ve been working with a company to try and reduce the problem.”
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 18, 2016 | Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes, UltraSonic Bird Control
Hoards of pigeons are damaging homes and creating havoc in Makkah, according to the city’s residents.
Spokesman for Makkah Municipality Osama Zaytooni said a number of residents are complaining that pigeons are ruining their crops and trees, and leaving their droppings in backyards and across rooftops.
“There are pigeons in great numbers almost everywhere you go,” Zaytooni said. “Although some might enjoy the beautiful bird and feed them as they are passing by, most people are fed up with the mess pigeons leave behind.”
He added that the municipality is also struggling with the problem, as they are creating a mess in Makkah’s streets and parks.
“Every day, we send workers to clean the streets as pigeons leave their droppings, dirtying the streets and ruining the grass in the parks,” Zaytooni said. “It is costing the municipality a lot of money.”
He also said some people have taken matters into their own hands and begun killing pigeons, but the municipality does not condone acts of animal cruelty.
“Some people have set up electric wires on their windowsills to prevent pigeons from nesting there,” Zaytooni said. “Others simply shoo them away and some have hired exterminators. Some would even drive through the middle of a pigeon herd and run over whatever obstructs their way.”
Zaytooni said the municipality has contracted a company to capture the pigeons and not kill them.
“Even though their numbers are destroying the nature of the city, they are still animals and they have their rights.”
Zaytooni said the municipality plans to capture a good number of pigeons to reduce their density and are also investigating a reproduction control strategy to ensure the problem doesn’t recur.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 15, 2016 | Animal Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes
The birds were so brazen during last Saturday’s All-Ireland football quarter-finals that a large flock remained on the pitch for most of both games, moving only when play came their way. Even then, they re-assembled close by.
They returned during the second half of the Kilkenny-Waterford game on Sunday and were joined later in the evening by around 200 seagulls.
A hawk was brought in this week to put the frighteners on the birds as the stadium gears up for two minor hurling semi-finals, followed by the Galway-Tipperary senior showdown, next Sunday.
An on-going seeding programme is the attraction for the pigeons, which enjoy lots of roosting space under the nearby railway bridge.
“Croke Park is a McDonald’s for pigeons at present. We are putting grass seed down on a continuous basis and they like to drop in for a treat. They obviously find it very tasty,” said stadium director Peter McKenna.
Nuisance
“They are a nuisance at any time, let alone on match days. We use a range of deterrents but it can be hard to get rid of pigeons. They get used to the various tricks so we have to keep changing them.”
A live, squawking hawk with a sharp eye and a menacing beak is among the top deterrents – hence his deployment this week as Croke Park gears up for seven successive weekends of All-Ireland hurling, football, camogie and ladies’ football action.
Continuous over-seeding is vital at this time of year to ensure the surface retains its lush surface.
Despite the recent Ed Sheeran concert, the pitch is in excellent condition, with McKenna describing it as “possibly the best it has ever been”.
Maintaining it is a major year-round operation, but it has been made easier in recent weeks by the excellent growing conditions.
“The weather has been ideal. We need to get as much growth as possible all the time so that not only is the surface in perfect conditions for the players, but that it also looks well with the various shades of green we can get on it,” said McKenna.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 12, 2016 | Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes, UltraSonic Bird Control
AvePro Bird Netting was selected as the primary netting product for the new Melbourne Market Canopies project. One of the largest bird netting projects completed to date in Australia, the work was accomplished by AvePro’s Victoria-based installation team in about 10 weeks. Pest IT Pty Ltd supplied the netting for the project.
The installation team consisting of 15 teams of netting installers worked around the clock while AvePro worked at a feverish pace to keep up with the production and the short procurement time.
The massive Melbourne Market Canopies bird netting project required almost 60,000 square metres of AvePro Deluxe 19mm net and hundreds of thousands of stainless steel fittings as well as 13,000 metres of zipper featuring a custom design. Each of the 250-plus stallholder canopy bays has a 33-metre supporting zipper that allows complete access to the roof mounted cameras, fire services, vents and serviceable fixtures as well as the refrigeration appliances on the roof.
A key objective of the project at the Melbourne Market was to create a bird-free zone to meet the requirements for food safety, cleanliness and hygiene while also reducing maintenance. The AvePro system prevents birds from accessing or roosting above the stallholder canopy bays, truck wash areas and loading docks.
Pest IT supplied the materials, training and design to assist the installation team and the client. Stall holders for both the new Flower Market and Fruit and Vegetable Markets will move into their new AvePro ‘Bird-Free Zone’ when the market opens in August 2015
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 6, 2016 | Bird Deterrent Products, Bird Netting, Pigeon Spikes
Police were called to the Strip District Friday morning after a clash between an animal rights activist and a man trapping pigeons.
Todd Glotfelty, who calls himself “the bird man of Elliott,” was trapping birds when he was confronted by a woman.
“She accused me of doing all kinds of evil stuff to pigeons. Pigeons are my life. I love pigeons,” said Glotfelty.
According to a police spokesperson, it is legal to trap birds in the city except in a city park.
Councilwoman Darlene Harris told Channel 11’s Rick Earle that she plans to introduce legislation that would ban bird trapping in the city limits.
“I have no idea what happened, but the lady in question got annoyed or very upset because she saw these gentlemen here are claiming to trap birds for wedding releases but they have feral gray pigeons in their van and she was upset,” said Rebecca Reid, a friend of the woman.
Glotfelty said he uses the birds for weddings.
The woman will not face charges related to the confrontation, but she was warned by police to stay away from Glotfelty.
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by Pigeon Patrol | Feb 5, 2016 | Bird Netting, Pigeon Patrol's Services, Pigeon Spikes
Guards have captured a pigeon flying cocaine and cannabis into a prison in Costa Rica.
La Reforma prison guards in San Rafael de Alajuela, Costa Rica, captured the bird as it flew 14 grams of cocaine and 14 grams of cannabis into the facility stuffed into a pouch attached to its body.
Paul Bertozzi, director of the police, confirmed reports that at around 2pm on Wednesday jailers saw the pigeon flying of the walls and towards the centre of the prison.
A mugshot of the bird, caught by security officers and taken into custody, was released by Costa Rica’s Department of Justice and Peace as a warning to be vigilant for Narcopalomas.
Narcopalomas, loosely translated as ‘drugs doves’, have been used by prisoners and their accomplices in the past– similar birds have been caught in prisons in Colombia, Argentina and even Bosnia.
Mr Bertozzi said the pigeon was “nothing new” and that drug traffickers were using “unimaginable ways to achieve their macabre atrocities”.
“In the past (the traffickers) have used cats and dogs to pass drugs to prisoners. Now it seems they are using pigeons to carry in their wares from the outside,” he told Spanish news agency Efe.
The latest such example hardly surprised prison authorities though: iguanas, dogs and cats have been used in the past to smuggle illegal substances into the jail.
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