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pigeons

Feed The Birds Without Getting An Asbo

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | December 28, 2011
A lengthy Daily Mail headline screamed “Landed with an Asbo, the Prada-loving Pigeon Lady of Pimlico: She’s banned from feeding the birds near her £750,000 home.” Nadia Lee was given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, applied for by Westminster Council, to prevent her from feeding birds in her local area for the next three years. For the [...]

Foul Facts About Birds And Their Droppings

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | October 3, 2011
Last week I blogged about my day out with Declan Gibbons, a Rentokil bird consultant and surveyor, Roger Maskell. We visited lots of different places including banks, bus shelters and supermarkets to observe the ways in which birds have been deterred from making someone else’s property their home. Throughout the day I began to see [...]

Shopping for Bird Control

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | September 20, 2011
I took a trip with a technician to a well-known shopping mall. Much to my chagrin we were not there to browse the new autumn/winter collections but had been dispatched on company business. We glided through the sleek air-conditioned shopping mall and entered the store which had called us for help. After introducing ourselves we [...]

Do Feral Pigeons Migrate?

Alicia for rentokil.ie | September 16, 2011
The peak migration season for birds has just started. From now until November flocks of birds will be on the move to warmer climes. Many birds pass through Ireland on their way to other countries. These ‘passage migrants’ include Arctic Terns and Sanderlings, small wading birds, which breed in the high arctic regions and are [...]

The Pigeon Kiss

Alicia for rentokil.ie | September 8, 2011
It’s National Kiss Day and pigeons top the romantic pests list. Pigeons have a complicated courtship sealed with a special pigeon kiss. Pigeons mate for life and are thoroughly modern parents who share parental responsibility, including childcare and foraging for unwanted scraps of food. As part of the pigeon courtship a single male will nod [...]