Can You Trap and Relocate Pigeons?

In a word, no, you can't trap and relocate pigeons to another location. You will find individual cases in which a pigeon can be relocated in a sense, but this rarely involves physical trapping and then removing the animal. In any capacity, attempting to trap the birds in the first place is going to be a difficult, laborious, and time-consuming task, and that's before you even think about the kind of distance you'd need to travel in order to find a place where that bird flock couldn't then come back.

Pigeons are known for many things, and it's not all pest-related. Their homing instincts, for example, are beyond that seen in many other wild animal species, and that one factor alone means that relocation of these birds is not easy. You'd probably find that they'd be able to fly back to the location on which you trapped them before you even found your own way back there.

If you do manage to trap pigeons in a cage or similar trap, you are then left with the job of euthanizing them, an action usually only legally permitted by a professional with the appropriate licenses, permits, and insurances.

Going back to what we briefly mentioned about relocating the pigeons in a sense; you can do this with the assistance of a pigeon box or loft. This only works when you can put the loft or box in an area where it is far enough away from your property, and also from anyone else's property, that the pigeons can't cause further problems. If you had a very large garden, for example, and one that didn't back on to or touch someone else's property, a pigeon loft or box could be installed to encourage them to roost there. This prevents them from becoming a problem close to your residential building or similar.

If the pigeon box can't be placed far enough away from other buildings that they won't cause problems, it is not a viable method of pest pigeon control and removal.