Pigeon problem at a school

Pigeons often fly into schools at lunchtime to eat food scraps left by students. It becomes a regular and reliable food source for them. As well as a food source, schools can provide pigeons with roosting places protected from the elements.

Pigeons like to roost under eaves, on top of air conditioning units, and inside ceilings. Two storey, early generation school buildings that lack sealed eaves are suseptible to pigeons getting into the ceiling space.

If eaves can be sealed, this will keep them out. However, every eave on every building needs to be completely and fully sealed. Any gap on any building will mean the pigeons just shift from one building to the next.

Air rifle to remove roosting pigeons at night

Compared to sealing up eaves, a far more economical solution is removing the roosting pigeons with an air rifle. This can be done at night while the pigeons are sitting quielty in the roosting spots in the ceiling.

An air rifle doesn’t make any noise, so other pigeons are not alarmed and fly away. On the contrary, if twenty pigeons were roosting in a ceiling then it could be expected that all twenty pigeons are removed during a single one hour visit. Once all the pigeons in the ceiling are shot with an air rifle pellet, they can be collected up in a bucket. 

Pigeons in school playground

Where pigeons in the school playground need to be removed, an appointment can be made for the school holidays. Within the first couple of days of school breaking up may work the best- because the pigeons may be more inclined to return the day after school finishes because that’s their daily routine.

Food can be spread out for them so they all do return. Then playground pigeons can be removed with an air rifle while students and staff are not present.

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