Read How One Company’s Solution is Helping Pigeon Populations in Power Plants

With a lifespan ranging from about 3-5 years in the wild, pigeons are birds who reproduce all throughout the year. It has been said that a pigeon has “two eggs per clutch and up to six clutches per year, so it is a rapidly reproducing species.”Due to their ability to rapidly increase their population, pigeons can cause harm to themselves and humans. One specific example of this is pigeons’ presence in power plants.

When pigeons start overcrowding power plants, harmful things can happen. First, as pigeons are forced to find more areas to inhabit, they spread out to less desirable areas which can lead to electrocution and also possible damage to the power plant in question.

So what is the solution to this problem?

Innolytics has come up with a solution called OvoControl which is birth control for pigeons. It is stated that “the OvoControl system is set up to automatically dispense food for the pigeons, which includes the birth control additive. The feeders are capable of holding more than 120 pounds of bait, which is enough to last several months for an average flock size. The system activates automatically using a digital timer.” The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, which has already introduced this system, has seen nearly an 80% of reduction in their overall pigeon population.

Birth control is a much more humane way of maintaining pigeon populations, rather than setting up contraptions such as spikes or improperly sealed nets which could injure or kill pigeons. It is certainly more of a humane method than killing them in order to decrease the population!

We hope that this invention from Innolytics brings more awareness to the options which are available for areas suffering from specific bird overpopulations!

For more information about OvoControl, learn more here

To learn more about other methods for protecting animals from harming themselves in power plants, read on here