Protect the historical buildings of the attack of the pigeons
Our historical buildings suffer a progressive deterioration owing to the settlements of Pigeons. The damages that cause them, could finish with them. So much it is so the community of the Cities Heritage of the Humanity already has declared them the war. Gathered the past week to treat, among others, this subject, the thirteen municipalities: Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Cáceres, Córdoba, Cuenca, Ibiza, Mérida, Salamanca, Saint Cristóbal of The Lagoon, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Tarragona and Toledo, agreed to set up a specific service of control of pigeons, and only since, have been captured already 35.000 copies.
Since the pigeons choose the historical buildings by his characteristics of construction and big oquedades to shelter, are these those that more suffer them, although no the only. And it is that his excrements litter the faã§ades and corrode the stone limestone and the metal, as they are composed by chemicals highly corrosivas, with sulphates, sulfitos, nitrates, sour úrico and fosfórico, that wear out gravely the surfaces where pose . Besides, they propagate and they transmit around 40 illnesses, like the ornitosis or the salmonella and, in case it was little, facilitate the apparition of secondary plagues of insects in his nests. In the case of the airports, suppose a danger added for the aeroplanes to the despegar and when landing.
Commonly defines them to him like ‘rats with wings' and is not for less since, to attain conserve our buildings, monuments and our own health, have to protect us of them and avoid his effects.
Jacinto Díez, director of Marketing of the company