Comment on Apparently they are actually for birds???

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pigeons are perfectly capable of making their own nests thank you.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ‘Perfectly capable’.

    Look, it works, okay? Survival if the fittest is a misinterpreted; it’s survival of the fittest enough.

    Have we tried just dropping out babies on city asphalt with a few sticks? Maybe we’re overdoing things.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      look a bootball that been hit by a car is a shape. it’s in shape.

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pigeons are really dumb birds, how they have survived as a species is a mystery to me. We have a few pairs on the farm that have had babies and out of the 6-8 that have made it to maturity, 2 of them we had to rescue cause they just jumped out of the nest and couldn’t fly yet. We’d put them back in the nest for a few days and then just give up and raise them in the aviary until they were fully grown and then release them. Awesome birds as pets, but dumb as a box of rocks in the wild.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      how they have survived as a species is a mystery to me

      Domestication is how they’ve survived. They’ve got odd little nests because they’re from a warm area and they really just need a few sticks to keep the egg from rolling out of the cliffside pockets they naturally nest in.

      We’ve transported them to areas they never evolved to live in, set them loose, and mock their struggle to survive.

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      • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Decimating their habitat is one thing, I will not tolerate the mocking of pigeons!

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean… don’t pigeons and a number of other birds… essentially have some method of navigating / spatial awareness that is still not well understood by science?

      Basically, yeah, they dumb as fuck, but also, they seem to have something approximating a sixth sense that we do not comprehend.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        method of navigating / spatial awareness that is still not well understood by science?

        trial and error?

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yea, I mean I’m not saying that to be mean. As I genuinely like the birds. They will talk to you when you get near them in the barns and the two we raised are still hanging out on the farm even years after we released them.

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    • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a couple of pigeons that made a nest in my backyard two years ago. It’s located right next to a wall that’s frequented by cats. It’s also right next to the back door, so every time we go out the birds leave the nest in a panic, leaving the chicks behind. That is, if there would be any chicks - the nest has such big holes that the eggs just fall out onto the ground.

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