Pigeon

Feral pigeons/domestic pigeons belong to the domesticated form of the rock pigeon. This is why they never build classic nests like other birds. The way they build their nests has to do with how rock pigeons nest: In cliffs and rock ledges.

We build nests often together. It is something she loves.

Limburg an der Lahn, in the western German state of Hesse, has just voted to exterminate its 700-strong pigeon population.

A referendum was held on 9 June - the same day as the country’s EU electiiom - after the city council’s decision to kill the birds in November 2023 proved controversial.

Just over 53 per cent of the residents who voted on Sunday approved the killing of the pigeons, Der Spiegel reports, with a total of 7,530 ‘yes’ votes cast.

“Today's result was unpredictable for us. The citizens have made use of their right and decided that the animals should be reduced by a falconer," mayor Marius Hahn (SPD) told the German news site.

This was the method initially proposed by the council last year, and the question put to voters was simply whether the decision should stand or not.

More precisely, the falconer will lure the birds into a trap, hit them over the head with a wooden stick to stun them, and then break their necks.  

Animal rights’ campaigners were horrified when the plan was announced. “We live in 2023, it can’t be that we kill animals just because they annoy us, or they’re a nuisance. That’s not acceptable,” Limburg city pigeon project manager Tanya Muller told the UK’s Sky News last year.

The cull is set to be carried out over the next two years.

Fuck them.

Now thay dont want to leave anymore

She takes more then half of the size of my pillow

Tis poor pigeon was innocent and was probably not even compensated with seeds.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/india-spy-pidgeon-suspect-china

It is not the first time a bird has come under police suspicion in India.

In 2020, police in Indian-controlled Kashmir released a pigeon belonging to a Pakistani fisher after a probe found that the bird, which had flown across the heavily militarized border between the nuclear-armed nations, was not a spy.

In 2016, another pigeon was taken into custody after it was found with a note that threatened Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

Freedom for all those pigeons!

It hatched but sadly didn't make it. But this is what it looks like if an egg gets fertilized. One day there is nothing and the next day you can see how life is developing. Seeing it with your own eyes is different, than simply reading about it.

She was so small when she was a little squab

Its important to be clean and take a bath when possible!

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Also known as "paloma sabanera" or "paloma boba" in spanish, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in the four Greater Antilles: Cuba, Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are forest, woodland, coastal desert, mangrove and swampy areas. It is threatened by habitat loss and illegal hunting.