Bird Control in Dallas, TX

How Our Bird Removal Works, Step by Step

1. 1

   Tell us where the birds are

   Call us and tell us what you have seen, such as a nest in a vent or birds flying in under the eaves. We ask about children and pets, too.

2. 2

   Name the bird, find the nests

   The technician checks the vents, eaves, soffits, porch beams, ledges and roof for nesting material, droppings and openings. Knowing the bird matters, because the law decides which nests can come out.

3. 3

   See what we found, then the price

   We show you each nest and opening and tell you which nests can come out now. Then you get the price, and the bird removal starts only when you agree to it.

4. 4

   Take out the nests, close the openings

   The empty nests come out first. Then each opening and ledge the birds used is closed off, and the droppings and old nesting material are cleaned away.

5. 5

   Get the findings in writing

   The findings name the bird, each nest that came out and each opening that was closed, with what went over it.

Call (972) 573-9907 at any hour to book the inspection, even the evening you first see the nest.

Pigeons, Sparrows and Starlings on DFW Homes

Most birds that nest on Dallas⁠–⁠Fort Worth houses are introduced species, not native ones: the house sparrow, the pigeon and the European starling.

House sparrows live almost everywhere in Texas and stay all year, since they do not migrate. They build in vents and on window ledges. Starlings take any hole they can find in a building, so a vent with no screen or a gap at the roofline will do.

Pigeons, also called rock doves, are very common in cities and suburbs alike. Calls from DFW homes about birds often involve a vent, a porch beam or a second-story ledge.

Barn and cliff swallows are the native exception. They nest under the eaves from March through September and come back to old nests, building on traces of the old mud.

Nests Out, Then the Roosts Closed Off

DFW Pest Guard keeps birds off a house by exclusion, which means closing them out instead of killing them. Bird nest removal comes first, and the kind of bird decides what the law allows.

Pigeons, house sparrows and starlings are not protected in Texas, so their empty nests can come out in any month. Swallows, woodpeckers and most other native birds are protected by state and federal law.

Swallows need a different schedule, because their nest cannot be touched without a permit once it holds eggs or chicks. So the old nests and mud come off, and the netting goes up, before the birds return in spring.

Then each spot the birds used gets closed off:

• Openings. Any gap wider than 3/4 inch, at the roofline or in a soffit, gets covered with hardware cloth, a stiff wire mesh.
• Vents. Each one gets a screen, so air still moves through and birds cannot get in.
• Eaves and awnings. Bird netting stretched underneath leaves no corner to build in.
• Ledges and porch beams. Needle strips, also called porcupine wire, run along the top, so a pigeon has nowhere to land.

That makes this humane pigeon control: the birds lose the ledge and go elsewhere. Poison grain bait for pigeons is a restricted-use pesticide, and Texas A&M does not recommend it in cities. We do not use it.

Signs Birds Are Nesting on Your House

Most of these show from the yard:

• Droppings on a window ledge, on the AC unit outside, or on the porch under a beam.
• Straw, grass or twigs poking out of a vent, a gutter or the eaves.
• Birds flying in and out of the same spot, or gathering over the front door.
• Mud nests under the eaves. Those belong to swallows.

Leave the nest and the droppings as they are until the technician has seen them. Pigeons play a part in spreading histoplasmosis, a lung infection people catch by breathing spores of a fungus that spreads in bird droppings.

Most people who breathe the spores do not get sick, the CDC says. Still, keep children and pets away from the droppings until they are cleaned up. Texas A&M advises a mask with a dust filter around pigeons in closed spaces like an attic, which is why our cleanup is done in protective gear.

Then call (972) 573-9907 and tell us where the birds go in. If you cannot tell what left the droppings, our pest inspection covers the attic, the garage, the outside of the house and the yard.

Bird Removal Across Dallas⁠–⁠Fort Worth

Our bird removal service covers Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Denton counties, from Fort Worth across to Dallas, where we are based, and north to Frisco and McKinney.

We work on homes only, which means houses, townhomes and apartments people live in, never shops or offices. Every town we cover is on our service areas page, and bird control at your address starts with a call to (972) 573-9907.

Questions About Birds