If you let a gull problem go unhandled, it will continue to grow and grow over the years to come.
Gull species such as herring gulls and lesser black backed gulls frequently return to the same site several years in a row and given that a single pair can raise upwards of 30 chicks in just 10 years you could soon find yourself dealing with a major infestation every breeding season.
Expert Gull Egg Replacement
Gull egg removal provides both short-term and long-term relief from gull control problems on your property.
By replacing gull eggs with decoys during their breeding season, you will reduce the gull population in your area in the years to come, as well as making the gulls already on your property far less loud and aggressive.
There are plenty of deterrents available that will scare seagulls away from your property, but these birds are extremely stubborn and will often return in the near future.
Egg removal, on the other hand, is an incredibly effective way to manage gull populations in the long-term, and will ensure that the gulls targeting your property quickly realise that this is not a suitable nesting site.
The longer you wait, the worse things will be. You need to halt this exponential growth in its tracks and professional egg removal is the perfect way to do just that.
Highly Realistic Replacement Eggs
We use highly realistic dummy Ersatz plastic eggs for our gull egg replacement services.
It is vital that gulls cannot tell the difference between their eggs and the replacements so they do not abandon them and continue to incubate them for the rest of the season.
Egg oiling, the alternative to egg replacement that involves applying a sterilising oil to existing eggs, is much more challenging.
Once breeding season is at an end, we will remove all traces of gulls from your property including all remnants of nesting materials that could block gutters and drains or attract other pest species.
Egg removal should be conducted alongside other bird control methods such as the installation of netting, spikes, and other deterrents. We will create the perfect bespoke plan to deal with the bird problems that you are facing using our extensive knowledge, experience, and the huge selection of control methods we have available.
Control Gull Behaviour
Preventing herring gull populations growing out of control through gull egg removal will preserve public health in the long-term and make gull breeding season a much more pleasant time for those on your property.
You won’t have to wait years for the effects to be enjoyed either, and egg replacement can have an immediate positive impact on the behaviour of urban gulls.
One of the biggest reasons that gull species are such a nightmare in urban areas is that they act extremely aggressively around their chicks. These animals, despite having excellent overall vision, have very poor depth perception meaning that if they are nesting on the roof of a building and see people walking down below, they will identify them as an immediate threat to their chicks.
To ward off would-be attackers, gulls use a range of defensive techniques, none of which are very pleasant to be on the end of. These include screeching loudly and even swooping down towards those below.
Dealing with this for the entirety of nesting season can seriously damage the quality of life for those working or living nearby and if you run a business site gull control is vital if you don’t want to see a dramatic drop in customer visits.
Whilst gulls are aggressive around their chicks, however, they act very differently around their eggs. They will remain in their nests throughout the incubation process keeping their eggs warm and protected from predators. They are much quieter and less forthcoming during this time.
By replacing their real eggs with decoys, you can increase the time spent in this more docile state by more than double in many cases, before they give up on the eggs, and since there are no chicks to hatch you will avoid the most aggressive phase of gull life completely.
Humane Bird Control
Egg replacement is an effective means of controlling gull populations without resorting to lethal methods.
Lethal control should only ever be a last resort when dealing with birds of any species, and all gulls, along with all other wild birds are strictly protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Whilst lethal control is occasionally required to deal with urban gulls, it is always better to prevent birds from nesting and breeding on your site in the first place. This is why egg replacement and nest removal are such great options.
Either way, you should always use a BPCA accredited pest control expert to conduct bird control services of any kind and it is all too easy to accidentally fall foul of bird protection laws.
If you accidentally remove nests of different bird species to the one posing a threat to public safety or kill seagulls without a licence, this is illegal and you may face prosecution.
Leave it to the experts, call us now for further advice or to arrange a free survey of the property. We will carry out a full risk assessment and design a bespoke plan to get rid of these flying pests from your rooftops once and for all.
Contact Us for Expert Bird Control Services
Gull egg replacement is a fantastic option for keeping a seagull population under control during breeding season in a humane and completely legal way.
We are a highly experienced pest control company, operating across the UK and Northern Ireland, manned by a team of expert pest bird experts with all the tools and knowledge to prevent roof nesting gulls and other pest birds from targeting your property.
If you have gull problems or issues involving any other adult birds, get in touch today for further information on egg removal or any of the other services we offer.
Contact us now on 0800 808 5464 to arrange for a free no obligation survey of your site and take back control of your property from those nuisance herring gulls.
