8:40 There's no such thing as a communist pigeon. They have pecking orders and the dominant pigeons eat more. I feed them everyday and know this is the case. Naturally, food supply is correlated with the size of the population (which are highly local). The average pigeon has an action range < 200 yards. Pigeons don't eat equally. That's an observational error by not discerning individual birds. If you name them each, then what I argue is observable.
Hate this torture breeding, should be prohibited. Poor birds can't see, fly or feed their offspring due to inbred features. Why don't animal protection laws apply??
My theory is that there's not one single and decisive factor. I noticed that the pigeons on my balcony use the position of the sun, i think it's their primary navigator, and the rest is memory, they have a very good memory, visual, for smells, sounds, etc. Besides, all migrating birds have a pretty amazing sense of where to fly to, there are birds who fly from Europe to Southern Africa for the winter and they take shortcuts or avoid watter masses where they can die, so it's not just pigeons. And when they come back they also come back pretty precisely, and the French bird doesn't end up in Germany 😂
You mean the pigeons' sense of odours is so strong that it guides them to a particular odours pattern of their native shack across 500km and more. 😅 i think it's stretching a bit too far the limits and capacities of biology. So maybe you should try training a bird to sniff truffles or employ them in wine shops to help customers choose a good wine.😉Maybe the poor pigeon simply had problems breathing and hence heartwork, which are essential for flying due to your anaesthetic. I wouldn't make any far-reaching breakthrough science from such an experiment. There have also been "scientists" who covered the poor birds' eyes to then make a genious conclusion a la oh he can't fly when he doesn't see, so surely he uses eyes for navigation 😂
7mins in. Those 2 females have different hair and skin colour. That is the reason the pigeons recognise the feeder regardless of what lab coat they are wearing. This simple experiment has no proof that it's anything to do with facial features.
I dont think we can judge a lot by the odor test made in the documentary, he might've overdosed it with xylocaine and bird became confused and it bothered a bird much more than the placement of home (I think)
My pigeons come every day for their breakfast. I have one that has been eating from my hand for over two years now. Sometimes I will be in the house, and he would perch against my patio door and do some loud cooing hopping I will show up with a few snacks. Same for the mourning doves.
I feed my wild bird's at least three times a day pigions mainly but all bird's. Best fed bird's in Dublin mostly on porridge it's cheep and cheerfully and they love it. They have a long life that they wouldn't have only I feed them, my way of staying connected. What I also noticed was this I feed them on my window ledge and they don't foul it. I think this is because they feed of the ledge and food mixed with shit is not cool even for pigions ☘️😮
In September 2021 we rescued an injured pigeon and brought it back to health. We named him Lucky. He visited us everyday, once a day, for two months. We left food and water for him. Sadly, he didn’t return and we’re hoping he flew off to his family.
😮i AM sorry but after being bullied for 6 years,life threatened to the point that i found it Impossible to continue feeding a group of city piegeons which i fed for those 6 years, finding myself heartbroken worried that the piegeons that were with me Will have a lot of dificulty going back to live off of what they can find i can only say that people are cruel and mean and very stupid. Piegeons are curious an Smart, they do know who is friend and who is not and they are definately not the rats of the sky people say they are. I love them, it is easy to fall in love with such cute creatures. I only wish i knew if they will survive this winter. PS: here in Portugal we frequently find piegeons in the streets Runned Over by automobiles , i had to pick some of my dead piegeons at least half a dozen times.
They look for food where there is none for too many hours a day. When they are properly fed, they eat twice a day and drink after. They starve. It is not OK that they are not taken care of and that lies are spread about them by the pest control comapnies unpunished.
Been around pigeons all my life .My grandfather and uncles raced them . Seeing a bird drop after a 14 hour flight in a head wind is an amazing sight and feeling.
Producing these fancy pigeons is abhorrent & long races are criminal. Dr Colin Walker explained how they release an acid which can burn their kidneys & sciatic nerves preventing them using their legs.
I had a racing pigeon live with me for four months he must’ve got lost along the way but he stayed with me for four months and I didn’t want to report him as I heard they would kill them if you sent them back as they were no use as racing pigeons they try to say that they live have them back but generally they will kill as they got lost on the way and won’t make any money. He brought me so much joy brought very much happiness to me. I hope he is free somewhere and is happy.
I feed the pigeons in my garden and make sure they have water, it gets on my neighbours nerves, but then again my neighbour gets on my nerves so we are equal.
Hi, i got 3 queries:- 1) What is the best time to feed the pigeons? 2) What food best to feed pigeons? 3) What time pigeons sleep? I chanced upon 1 pigeon behind my house and thought it is hungry so I fed it with some bread.... Thereafter more and more pigeons will wait behind my house everyday and I started feeding all of them... they were so adorable! Curious to know their habitats, characteristics and more....
"Pigeons can see for 42 kilometers" is a bit confusing. They can see what? Can they distinguish something of what size at that distance? Measuring eyesight by distance alone is not a good metric, in my opinion. For example how far can humans see? 10 km, 50, 1000, a million, 150 million kilometers or more? The sun is about 150 million km away and we can see it, no problem. The Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 million light years away from Earth (that's 23 quadrillion km away) and we can see it with the naked eye. I'm sure a lot of eyes in the animal kingdom can see the moon and the sun, even if not in focus or how we humans see them.
Floriano Papi in 1971 published his research showing it was the pigeon's sense of smell that guided its homing ability. This is an interesting video, but they ought to have explained they were only repeating an experiment, the results of which were already known.
Wild animals are not stupid, but they use their intelligence mostly to concentrate on survival skills. When domesticated, they begin to focus on other things.
