Some people love pigeons, and some people hate them. Regardless of whether you love them, hate them, or are indifferent, a pigeon living on your property can mean trouble.
Pigeon poop can damage property and vehicles and, if you touch it, it can make you sick.
This article looks at how to get rid of a pigeon’s nest with eggs.
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How to get rid of a pigeon nest with eggs:
Legalities:
Depending on where you are, it may be legal or illegal to remove a pigeon’s nest with eggs.
So, before deciding to remove the nest, check your local, regional, and national wildlife laws to see whether removing a pigeon’s nest is legal where you are.
If you remove a pigeon’s nest, in an area where it is illegal to do so, then you may face fines or other penalties. If removing a pigeons nest with eggs is legal where you are, then this is how to do it:
Precautions:
Make sure that you wear gloves when handling the nest. Pigeon nests are often riddled with mites, bacteria, and other parasites that can make you ill.
Also, before handling the nest, make sure to protect yourself by wearing a long-sleeved shirt, a respiratory mask, and long pants.
If you want the eggs to hatch:
If you’re concerned about the well-being of the eggs after removing the nest, and if you want the eggs to hatch, then it would be best to leave the nest and eggs alone.
If you move the nest elsewhere, then the parents will not come back to the nest and the babies will die. If you throw the eggs away then the eggs will die as well. Baby birds need to be raised by their parents for them to survive.
Don’t worry, pigeon babies hatch and grow quite quickly. The eggs will hatch after 17 – 19 days of incubation and the hatchlings will leave the nest about a month after hatching.
You can remove the nest after the hatchlings have left the nest.
Note: If you decide to wait for the birds to leave the nest before getting rid of the nest then we recommend that you wait a couple of days before removing the nest.
We recommend this because some nestlings will come back to the nest, live in the nest for a couple of days, then leave again, they will leave for good and not come back after this.
Once the birds are permanently gone, you can dispose of the nest in a compost pile to allow it to decompose naturally.
Alternatively, you can place the nest in a garbage bag, and then in a trashcan, and seal the trashcan very well to keep predators from rummaging through the trash looking for the nest.
If you’re not worried about the eggs hatching:
If you’re not concerned about the eggs hatching, then you can dispose of the eggs and nest immediately.
Start off by separating the nest and the eggs. Place the eggs out in nature somewhere hidden. You can leave the eggs under a bush in a nearby park. The eggs will eventually go back to being a part of nature.
Dispose of the nest by placing it in a plastic bag, tieing the bag securely, and then throwing the bag in a sealed trashcan.
After nest removal:
The area that the nest was built on needs to be cleaned after you’ve removed the nest, that is, if the nest was built on something manmade.
If the nest was on a tree, or in a bush, then you don’t have to clean the area up after the nest removal, but if the nest was on your patio, gutter, roof, or anything else that was man-made, then you need to clean up afterward.
When cleaning, make sure that you remove all the debris leftover while you were removing the nest. In addition, clean the area using a solution made up of nine parts water to one part chlorine.
How to keep birds from building a nest:
Removing the nest from your property doesn’t change the fact that your property is likely a great place for pigeons to build nests. You can discourage future nest building by making your property less attractive to birds.
Using bird spikes on your property will make your space less attractive to birds. Bird spikes can be placed almost anywhere on your property, they are a great long-term solution that will keep birds away.
Install these spikes wherever the previous bird’s nest was, as well as anywhere you think that pigeons would likely build nests in future.
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