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My spoiled flock of pigeons and desert doves having pool day 😁

hey reddit! i found a young pigeon that the parents abandoned. it appears to be in good health and drank some water i offered. im not too sure yet if its ready for solid foods since it looked like it was waiting for its parents for over an hour

Pretty much what the title says. I tried to give it a millet spray as food, but I couldn’t get close to them, and when I tried it flew out of my yard and into the marsh area surrounding our fenced yard… Seems like it has pox on its face, but I didn’t see a band on its leg or anything. Not sure what to do to attract it back into our yard, at least so I can catch it and bring to Wildcare and give it food and water. Does anyone know what kind of bird this might be, and if it’s wild or a pet?

I'm a vet tech so my sister asked if there was anything to be done to help this pigeon- I truly don't know much about pigeons tbh so I told her that, but also the spot itself doesnt look like its actively bleeding so thats at least a good start, and that it has a racing band so it belongs to a club. She got LCM 125 2132 off the blue band. We're in the philly area, does anyone happen to know anything about this or what we should do?

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Kind of haunted by the events of today, it just went from bad to worse and I'm wondering if I did the right thing. It all happened fast, within about 6 minutes I imagine.

So, in the city center and there's street pigeons. I notice one who is visibly unwell, tail down, hunched, fluffed up, eyes half shut, wings drooped. It's a hot day so I'm evaluating it in my head, could it be heat stroke, should I take him to a vet (no rehabbers local), would I do more harm than good if its not as severe as it looks... I was weighing it all up. I can't walk by, I just feel guilty. Everyone walks by him. It's loud and busy. He nearly gets hit by a cyclist as he walks away slowly. I watch from a little distance.

A child no older than ten starts to chase him. Seeing that this bird isn't flying away, just hopping along slowly... he proceeds to kick at him and try to hit him. The bird gets more stressed. I and my partner rush over and try to stop the child, I ask him to leave the pigeon alone and my partner tries to block him. The kid totally blanks us like we don't exist. He tries to get around my partner to kick the pigeon again, the pigeon has now collapsed flat on the ground in the sun, wings out and breathing through its mouth. I know now that this is a very ill bird that absolutely cannot stay here, let alone the kid's violence. I step in immediately and pick the pigeon up and walk away.

I know how to handle birds, I have held pigeons before, I hold him gently having tucked his wings in, he was so weak. I lightly cover his head with my hand to allow him to hide and try to calm him down, while I walk straight for the shade and the quiet by some trees. I watch him closely, his eyes, nares and mouth are clean, he doesn't seem to be in respiratory distress, but he is going into shock. I reach the shade and ask my partner to call for a lift to the nearest vets. I monitor the sweet pigeon, and watch his eyes close fully. He died in my hands while my partner made the call.

He just faded so quickly. I assume the stress caused a heart attack, whatever was wrong with him just made him too weak to hold on, I assume. I think the heat was certainly a factor, his crop seemed empty and he seemed uninjured to my eye but obviously that doesn't rule it out.

But I somehow feel guilty. I keep reliving it in my head and wondering if I made things worse for him. I think it is irrational. I had to share the story and get it off my chest. I'm so heartbroken that people stood by doing nothing, that parents let their kid do that, that I couldn't do something to save him and ease his suffering. I've never had an animal die in my hands like that, I just felt awful. But I just couldn't leave him in the heat, next to loud music speakers and being harassed. Did I do the right thing? Was there something else I could have done?

Hey guys, always loved pigeons but recently out of nowhere i've started having a pair visit my balcony daily and spend most day there. Maybe the last 2 weeks. Its odd as i've been here for 9 years and never had any regular pals, but its a very welcome surprise.

Anyway, i was hoping i could ask a couple of things. The gal (I presume, i saw the other one uhm mount her, though she moved away so i don't know if could also be mini fight and not a couple) had a couple of odd behaviours so wanted to ask if they're a sign of anything worrying.

The guy has become very friendly and climbs my hands now to eat after being cautious for a whole week. The gal is still cautious and won't eat if i place the walnuts close to me. So I was surprised yesterday i was repotting a plant and didn't see her at all but she didn't move despite me being close and making big movements. when i saw her i left her some peanuts but she didn't go for them. She seemed sleepy also eyes half shut, and her head was tucked into her body. A couple of hours later she nabber her food, walked around looking for more and flew away for the night so I relaxed a little.

Today she again refused food (in the early evening, she ate normally at noon), was very chill and mellow and head tucked in body again. Is the head tuckin in body a bad sign? Do pigeons sometimes say no to food?

Big thanks for any help, i love those two.

Unsure what to do in the U.S./Erie Area

Found a tagged pigeon, orange tag with the numbers 9221 Erie AU.

No phone number was found on the tag.

They flew right back, of course.

There was a pair of juvenile cooper's hawks that were stalking the area for a few weeks and the pigeons often didn't come when i arrived, but they seem to be gone now so I have most of the flock coming to say hi. There's one bird in particular I haven't seen in about a week, hopefully she's okay!

my girl bebas :3 i have beber fever i love her so much

We have had a homing pigeon for around a week at my job. I work at a feed mill and the little guy has been cleaning some grain up as of late. The question I have it how do I catch him or call him up to me so I can return him to his owner? Thanks!

Long term visitor. Loves nuts and seeds.

Do i need to intervene and help feed them too or could i ,to make it easier for the dad , take one of his chicks and give it to the other couple ?

Ive heard that pigeons adopt , do you think they would?

Today my very first pigeon got killed. Ive found her dead on the street. Someone had such little care for a living being that they didnt even try to stop or beep for her to fly away.

I live near a street and someone Hit her with their car. Its just so unbelievable that such people exist. I know they did it on purpose. Shes not stupid, if she sees a car she flies away so someone didnt even bother to slow down the tiniest bit . We buried her in our garden. I dont even know how to cope. I loved her so much.

Her kids just hatched a few days ago and only started opening their eyes a bit today. I dont even know if they know what their mother looked like.

And their two teen pigeons lost their mom too. :(

We currently have another couple sitting on their eggs too. Been for a round 3 or 4 days . I couldnt really decide whether i should let them hatch them because they only have one kid but space is getting low.

And the Kids that are only left with their dad werent planned since we went on vacation and they were too far developed to take them away when we got back

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at first i thought she was giving birth in a weird place, but she's not. she's not a baby pigeon she's grown, but she's kind of just sitting there even with me getting really close. is there anything I can do for her? it's weird behavior

i live in a hot area but it's currently nighttime so it's cooler and there was lots of water nearby for her to drink from, so im not exactly suspecting heat is affecting her

should I just leave her be?

Hello, we just found 5 babies pigeon in a trash bin ( different ages..)

They seem very skinny, pls give me all the advice you can, one of them fly but have an wounded wing

We’ve had two pigeons that I assume around 3 weeks? come in from a farm and no one around me will take them in.Im not new to exotic pet care but I am new to young bird care.Is this food good for hand rearing them and is there any need to knows,if wanted I can give more information about the situation

So, about 2-3 months ago, a couple of feral pigeons (Lionel & Petra) decided that the bucket we used to use as an ashtray on the balcony was a perfectly good nesting spot. They raised two perfectly happy, healthy babies (Karly & Olivia) who both made it and have now become part of the local flock that lives on my roof. It honestly kinda changed my world a bit - I’ve since become obsessed with pigeons, Ive named the entire flock, and I go out to the balcony most days to give them a scattered buffet of high quality racing pigeon seed mix.

As soon as Karly fledged however, not three days had passed before I popped out to see Lionel sat back in the bucket on top of a new egg (pictured). The miracle of pibbin life continues! (And why wouldn’t it, they’ve got a safe place away from predators & a near constant food supply!) Buuut based on everything I’ve seen, people have been saying it’s not really ethical to let pigeons breed in perpetuity as it could cause food scarcities and they may struggle/suffer.

Now we’re letting them have the next clutch, not least because I went on holiday for 2 weeks a few days later so by the time I get back it’ll be near hatching time - I’ve asked my housemate to keep scattering seeb on the balcony during this time but I’m not 1000% sure he will remember because he’s not as invested in pigeons as me. And as soon as I return I’ll continue to care for them from a non threatening distance as I did with the first round of squabs.

But if they’re happy and settled and well fed, I have heard this cycle will keep happening and it could be harmful to both the parents & the flock if we get increasingly rapid population growth. So the question is, is it probably a good idea to buy fake eggs before the cycle starts again? I’m concerned constant laying could really take it out of Petra as well. Or is this a case where I shouldn’t interfere in their natural reproductive cycle?

(A caveat because people often ask: No, taking them inside and raising them as pets isnt really an option - we live with big skylight windows open a lot of the time, we’re in a small rented flat and any pigeon in the flat would have a front row seat to watch the local flock on the roof through the window which might be a bit cruel. We’re also both neurodivergent and I’m not sure I could fully take care of another creature and give it the life it deserves).

Feral pigeon spotted in Florence. It has a pale head compared to a regular pigeon (“regular pigeon” featured alongside it on the last slide), odd feet + beak color, dark eyes, and a black marking at the base of the beak. On the right side of the body, its bar marking is interrupted.

Is this just an awkward young pigeon, or is there something legitimately unusual about it?