Why Bird Control Is a Particular Issue in New Westminster
New Westminster's bird control pressure concentrates on its downtown commercial core, Queensborough industrial area, and heritage residential stock. Columbia Street's downtown commercial district provides pigeon roosting ledges on older commercial buildings. Queensborough's industrial buildings — particularly flat-roof warehouse and commercial stock on the Fraser River island — accumulate pigeon flock roosts.
Queens Park's century-old heritage homes provide the most established starling and house sparrow nesting cavity conditions of any neighbourhood in New Westminster. Original pre-1930s eave construction with century-old entry gaps has been used as nesting sites by successive generations of starlings for decades in some cases.
The Fraser River's tidal zone and the heritage industrial buildings along the waterfront generate pigeon roosting demand that may intersect with federally protected migratory bird habitat considerations near the river.
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