Pigeon Control News & Blog

Urban environments face unique challenges when it comes to managing pest populations. The OvoControl® Urban Feeder is our latest innovation in outdoor equipment, designed for permanent installation in public spaces such as parks, plazas, parking lots and other hard or paved surfaces where pigeons tend to gather. 

The underlying problem with many pesticides is that the goal is to kill everything. This often leads to resistant populations of the target pest.

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In the US and around the world, the pigeons must be wondering where all the people went! While many industries and markets have been forced to close for public health reasons, the pigeons appear unaffected.

LAS VEGAS (July 2) -- It sounds like a plot line for the NBC sitcom "Parks & Recreation," but this is no joke: The latest approach to combating the messy scourge of urban pigeons is to con them into eating pellets laced with contraceptive.

Authorities in Saskatoon, Canada, announced this week their plan to remove an estimated 350 tons of accumulated pigeon feces - roughly equivalent to 230 cars - from under a local bridge.

We often get questions about the active ingredient in OvoControl, nicarbazin.

Although the chemical has a long history, its use as a contraceptive for pest birds is relatively new. Originally developed by Merck in 1955, nicarbazin has been used as an FDA registered anticoccidial for chickens for more than 60 years.

Texas Parks and Wildlife has reported paramyxovirus, specifically Pigeon Paramyxovirus-1, or PPMV-1 in Eurasian collared doves near El Paso, TX.