How to Prevent Woodpeckers From Pecking Your Home
Woodpeckers drill on houses for a variety of reasons: courtship drumming, drilling for insects or drilling for storage. Here's how to get them to stop.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Chicken Wire
- Sheet Metal
- Garden Hoses
- Plastic Sheets
- Common Nails
- Hammers
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Squirt woodpeckers with water from a hose or a high-powered water pistol.
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Bang on the inside wall opposite of where the woodpeckers are drilling.
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Nail metal or plastic sheeting over the area where the woodpeckers are drilling.
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Use chicken wire or wire mesh over pecked areas, attaching it 1 to 2 inches from the side of the house. Woodpeckers won't have access to the wood.
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Tips & Warnings
Woodpeckers generally drill on homes made of wood or with wood siding, especially of redwood or cedar.
Have your house checked for termites, which may attract woodpeckers.
All species of woodpeckers are protected by federal law. Shooting, trapping or otherwise harming them is forbidden.
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Comments
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I have a woodpecker damaging my home. Unfortunately woodpeckers are more important to our government and certain other people in America then our human babies. I was searching for control methods and found all woodpeckers are protected by federal law. "All species of woodpeckers are protected by federal law. Shooting, trapping or otherwise harming them is forbidden”. Interesting that the government actually allows and promotes aborting our babies yet we cannot harm a destructive woodpecker.
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featuremom
Apr 30, 2008
A bird expert told my mom that woodpeckers are afraid of owls. He suggested she purchase a large plastic owl from a hardware store and place it on her stoop near the spot where the woodpecker had been drilling. She did, and hasn't seen or heard one since! -
featuremom
Apr 30, 2008
My mom was told by a bird expert that woodpeckers are afraid of owls. He suggested she purchase a large plastic owl from a hardware store and place it on her stoop near the spot where the woodpecker had been drilling. She did, and hasn't seen or heard one since!
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sammybenjamin
Dec 22, 2006
A reminder to all who are using hunting means to rid of this problem : All species of woodpeckers are protected by federal law. Shooting, trapping or otherwise harming them is forbidden.
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sammybenjamin
Dec 22, 2006
A reminder to all who are using hunting means to rid of this problem : All species of woodpeckers are protected by federal law. Shooting, trapping or otherwise harming them is forbidden.
