• Culling is an extremely expensive option, as a long-term contract with pest controllers will have to be entered because regular repeat culls will be necessary.
• Culling by poison puts other species at risk because it is both indiscriminate and because poisoned birds will affect other animals in the food chain. Cats and birds of prey may consume poisoned pigeons with fatal results.
• Pet pigeons allowed to fly free for a few hours daily. Pest control agents never can identify pet pigeons if they are among feral ones. Many of pet pigeons have chip id placed in their chest and not necessary ring on their foot, therefore they cannot be identified. When pest control agent, pigeon proof a resident’s roof (spread poison on the roof), puts all pigeons at the risk.
• Poisoning is very inhumane as the pigeons taking the bait will die slowly and may suffer dehydration and hypothermia. It is banned in many countries.
• Shooting is a widely used culling method which also results in suffering as the majority of birds shot are wounded, rather than killed. There have been many reports of injured birds being thrown into bin bags or stamped upon by pest control operatives. Young chicks are also left to slowly perish or destroy at the scene. Shooting causing so much distress in society.
• Trapping of pigeons by net is also widespread. Apart from the risk that trapped birds are sometimes left to die from exposure, this culling method is also very time-consuming and expensive. Trapped pigeons never released, they are destroyed by dislocate their neck or gas chambers to suffocate them, EXTREMELY INHUMAN METHODS.
• Trapping pigeons by cage does not drop pigeon population.