On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:24:20PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > Be kind to pigeons > > > > I've got about fifty hanging around my barn. Flying rats. > > Arrgh. Even worse here. I hate those creatures sitting on my neighbour's > window sills. (I chase them from mine...) They are noisy, That's humans' fault for genetically engineering them by selective breeding. The wild rock dove, from which common pigeons are descended, is a shy and quiet bird. > they stink, ?? You must have an unusually sensitive nose then, I can't smell a pigeon sitting on my windowsill... OTOH if I bury my nose in a pigeon's plumage and inhale I think the smell is great. > and they > are the only animals I know of, that raise their breed in their own shit. Actually, they don't. There may be droppings all around the nest from the general habitation of many pigeons in that space, but the nest itself is kept clean. The chicks hoist their arse over the boundary of the nest to drop one, and the adults save it up while they are sitting on the nest, then when the other bird arrives to take over they go and drop one the size of a goose turd, well away from the nest. The adults also clear up if the chicks don't quite keep themselves clean. There is never any shit congealed onto the chicks' feathers. (If you think pigeons' roosts are bad, try a bat cave...) > If > I had a gun, I would shoot every single of them... Good job you haven't got a gun then... > joerg > > PS.: Yes, Usually I like animals, and birds, too... Excellent. Try studying pigeons... set up a video camera to watch a nest, or something. Hand-rearing chicks is very rewarding. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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