Pigeons, also known as rats with wings, love to roost on the window sills, roofs and cornices of brownstones, bringing their unsightly droppings with them. The droppings pose a moderate health risk ...
Robyn Bailey, project leader for NestWatch at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, spoke exclusively with House Digest about why ...
Pigeons are pests. There are reasons city-dwellers call them “rats with wings”: They multiply quickly—reproducing over the course of just a few weeks—and drive away other bird species. Their droppings ...
SAUSALITO, Calif. — Mark Flaherty has tried it all: $35,000 worth of screens, twirling metal devices on the roof. The general manager of the Inn Above the Tide even hired scuba divers -- twice -- to ...
While motorists want to spend as little time as possible at toll plazas along the Thruway, pigeons prefer to make themselves at home. Roosting pigeons have become such a nuisance at tollbooths in ...