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How to sell annoying pigeons with simple means
Updated on April 7th, 2025 – 04:29Reading time: 4 min.

On the balcony, the window or roof, you can easily become a plague: pigeons. Her feces is so aggressive that he eats in surfaces and can cause great damage there. It also often contains dangerous germs.
In the vernacular, pigeons are often referred to as “rats of the air” because they are supposed to transmit diseases particularly frequently. This statement is not documented. However, it is true that there are numerous bacteria, viruses and mushrooms in your feces that are hazardous to health. However, the same applies to the legacies of other birds.
It is therefore important that you do not touch bird dirt with your bare hands. Always wear gloves. Once the feces has already dried, it can be distributed over the air as a dust and then inhaled. It is therefore important to remove older dirt.
There are numerous means and tricks with which you can fend off pigeons. However, only a few of this are effective. Many are also not animal -friendly.
The following measures have proven to be effective methods for pigeon defense:
- Sloping sheets
- Clamping
- mobile
- Nets
- Pigeon defense tips
Assemble plates made of stainless sheet metal or acrylic plates at a 45-degree angle on the window lines, the balcony parapet or other places that the birds can use and also use nesting. The animals constantly slide on the sloping and smooth surface.
Danger
Do not provide the boards with nails. You can hurt the animals.
The animals also prevent lingering Clampingthat are attached via the balcony railing or the window ledge. The wires are so thin that pigeons and other larger birds cannot balance them and consequently sitting.
The right assembly is important with this method. In order for the pigeons to be warded off, the wires should be installed in the correct height. If the device is too high, the birds can run under the barrier. If the wire is too low, the pigeons can sit between the wires.
Tinker a mobile of CDs, aluminum foil and metal straps and hang it in front of your window or balcony. The shiny surfaces reflect the light so that the pigeons are blinded on the approach and they lose their orientation. Due to the wind, the CDs and ligaments are constantly on the move. Pigeons cannot therefore learn in which angle they are not blinded.
Both dogs as well as cats on the balcony or in the garden can ensure that less or no pigeons stay with them.
Spikes or pigeon defense tips
In order to prevent pigeons on the lands on surfaces, pipes or gutters, spikes or pigeon defense peaks are installed at the corresponding places. The long and pointed rods are about ten centimeters long and are attached using screws or glue. It is important that the tips and spikes are not too pointed. Otherwise the birds can injure themselves – if the wounds are too big, the pigeons could no longer fly and then die into the spikes. But there are also spikes and tips that do not hurt the animals. When buying, pay attention to the corresponding labeling.
This method of pigeon defense has another disadvantage: if leaves, branches or other objects are caught in the tips, the pigeons could sit at this accumulation and even build a nest on it.
Danger
The attachment of tips and spikes is forbidden if children are at risk from this defense method and they could injure themselves.

So that pigeons do not fly onto their balcony or roof angle, you can stretch a network. The mesh should be about five centimeters in size.
Disadvantages of this pigeon defense are that the networks often have to be assembled, regularly maintained and that in addition to pigeons, other birds can get tangled in the nets and then die. Animal rights activists warn of this method.