- Smaller birds are often welcome in gardens and public spaces
- Birds eat insects as well as slugs and snails
- Birds become a nuisance when they ‘invade’ a property or surrounding space
Pigeons
- Not nasty or aggressive
- Roosting in large numbers causes a large amount of droppings
- As well as droppings being slippery, pigeons damage buildings
- There are 318 species of pigeon
Seagulls
- There are 20 species of seagulls across all continents, including Arctic and Antarctica
- They are thought to have existed for 33 million years
- Seagulls eat anything from earthworms to food scraps, fruit, seeds and so on
- They will steal food from other animals, birds and humans
- Seagulls lay one or two eggs, which hatch after three weeks
- They can live to the age of 15 years
DIAGNOSIS
Nuisance scale: 6/10 MODERATE
Hazard: 7/10 MODERATE
Bird proofing measures help to keep bird problems at bay.
HOW WE TREAT THIS PEST
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VITAL STATISTICS
Size: The largest seagull can reach 1.7kg in weight and 76cm in length
Weight: Pigeons weigh between 450-550g and 42cm in length
INTERESTING FACTS
Seagulls
- Seagulls are one of the rare animals that can drink sea water
- They will sometimes eat young seagulls
- They communicate with sound and body language
- They also mate for a lifetime
Pigeons
- Paloma is Spanish for pigeon – Picasso loved pigeons and called his daughter Paloma
- American and British forces strapped cameras to pigeons during the First World War to take aerial photographs
- They can fly at 40 to 50 miles per hour
- They have been known to fly 600 miles a day
- In 7th Century, pigeon droppings were used in making gunpowder
- Pigeons have superior hearing and can hear earthquakes!
- Pigeons do not have to lift their head to swallow water like other birds do