Hollywood residents believe they've found a humane way to reduce their pigeon population and the messes the birds make: the pill. Over the next few months a birth control product called OvoControl P, ...

Eager to reduce the neighborhood pigeon population and the mess that comes with it, Hollywood residents appear ready to try a new birth control method on their wild birds. Beginning within the next ...

Too many pigeons? The birds are most commonly trapped (and killed), shot or poisoned. Innolytics developed a technology which represents “birth control” for birds. Applied daily with an automatic ...

City-dwellers often complain about pigeons, calling them “rats with wings” and condemning them as noisy, messy, disease-carrying feces machines. But they’re really pretty benign. Much of the problem ...

OvoControl, which contains the compound nicarbazin, is an oral contraceptive for birds that has proven to be a safe and effective contraceptive agent for geese. Nevertheless, state and federal ...

A feral chicken walks outside the Aiea Public Library on Tuesday. The use of OvoControl has some advantages. It’s generally more humane and effective than, say, trapping chickens, shooting them or ...

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Pigeons can be a real problem on B.C.’s SkyTrain transit system. While the droppings are messy enough, the birds also put customer safety at risk. TransLink says they trigger track intrusion alarms, ...