Cheap Ways to get Rid of Pigeons

We'll hit you with the bad news first: cheap animal removal, including pigeon removal, rarely actually ends up being cheap.

Now, we'll hit you with the good news: Pigeon removal with a professional company is nowhere near as expensive as you'd think.

The price of pigeon removal will obviously depend on the extent of the problem, but many homeowners will know about the problem from an early point. The birds give the game away with mounds of excrement, and homes with cats (and the occasional dog) will no doubt have found themselves with a half-eaten bird at their feet, a gift from their beloved pet, on more than one occasion. (We certainly have!)

The sooner you diagnose and treat a pigeon problem, the cheaper it'll be. The longer you leave those pesky birds to do whatever is they do, the more you'll need to pay. These costs will mount not just for the actual removal job, but also for the preventative methods that you'll need to put in place, and also for the cleanup operation. In some cases, the removal of the birds themselves is actually the easiest part of the entire job.

If you hire a professional for a relatively small and early-diagnosed job, you'll be looking at paying somewhere in the region of $300 to $500. The more pigeons you have, the more the price will rise. The more damage is left behind, the more the price will rise again, and the larger the space that needs to be protected from the birds, the more the costs will increase ... again.

In short — the sooner you get the job treated, the less you'll need to pay.

DIY methods can work to remove pigeons for a low price, but these efforts are often not quite enough to successfully keep them away for good. Areas may be missed out when you attach netting or spike strips, or you might use the wrong size of netting or spike strips for the area that you need to cover. You might miss areas of pigeon excrement, and the corrosive nature of it could then cause damage to tiled roofs, brick walls, wooden siding, ledges, and much more besides. You will then need to pay to have that excrement removed, and then you'll need to pay out to have the damage repaired, too.

If you rely on repellents to get rid of pigeons, they probably won't work. What started out as a small pigeon removal job, with relatively little cleanup, then turns into a medium-sized job, maybe doubling the cost, and leaving damage to repair on top of excrement to clean up. If you still don't get the job done properly, you'll then have a very large problem on your hands, with lots of birds, lots of excrement, and lots of damage, which could then run into thousands of dollars to put right.

The cheapest way to get rid of pigeons is the fastest way. If you're not going to use pigeon removal specialists to get the job done, we recommend making sure that you're fully armed with both the tools you'll need and the right knowledge of the birds themselves, before you attempt any kind of removal action.