r/pigeon

I did manage to get up there and clean the area up, but she already has a new set born about 12 days ago.

What's up with his neck? Is that a breed?

That's my fav pigeon, I feed him and his friends regularly. I hope they will trust me more one day so I could stare at him from a smaller distance lmao.

A fledgling I posted a couple days ago, found laying on the street in a terrible condition after a cat attack. Doing better! With a badly hurt feet though. (second pic: it preferred to sleep on a shoe.)

I can't believe how it pushed through that first night of pain and breathing issues with only some saline water to her wound 💔 and woke up the next morning flying and on survival mode, not letting me grab it. Its strength and will to live is admirable. 😭 That morning I took Mani (how I've taken to call it) to be looked at by the vets of an animal welfare program, who then gave me antibiotics to apply them to the wounds.

Tried to teach it to eat some canary seeds, and it did it on its own when I left! I'll add some eggshells as "grit" while I get more stuff for that. Also drank a little bit of boiled egg yolk mixed with water. Haven't found mixes for pigeons in my area, but I've thought of getting a mix for chicks 🐤 or parrots, or lentils. I got some vitamin B complex but haven't started giving it to Mani.

⬇️⬇️⬇️ Everyday around 3-4 p.m it calls out for other birds, and it breaks my heart 😭 my room is a safe space in a house with 13+ pets but Mani is bored​ and annoyed. I would like to know what you guys think I should do after it has recovered? The place where it was found was a sad road, its mom nowhere to be seen. I suspect it strayed from her when it got attacked...should I take it to that place? Or slowly reintroduce it to the outside with a harness? I really don't want it to d1e of hunger outside or something of the sorts, nor do I want it to live an unhappy life. Thank you to the kind people who saw my initial post and supported Mani. ❤️‍🩹

For the past two weeks, pigeons have been nesting on our balcony, and yesterday the eggs finally hatched. However, one of the chicks kept leaving the nest, and the mother would only sit on the other chick. I tried to help by making a small nest and placing both chicks in it, but since then the mother hasn’t come back.

I’ve just now put them in a towel nest with a warm water bottle to keep them warm, but I’m really worried they won’t survive much longer if she doesn’t return. Can anyone advise what I should do?

This shows a male emerald dove. It is one of my favourite pigeon species

Hi!

I've just found this subreddit and I want to present you a couple of my daily visitors...

In the video (had to link it) you can see:

Binni and Rayitas, they are a couple, the dark greys one, Rayitas, I think, is the boy and has like brown little lines on the back, Binni has a white splotch on the back, close to her neck. they think they own the place and enters my home through the balcony like they live here. :D Rayitas is like impossible to get rid of, you push him and he inmediately comes back, he don't get offended, LOL!

Hijita ("Little Daughter" would be the translation), she is already 2 years old, I assume she is a girl. She comes here since she was a baby learning how to eat, her dad/mum (I don't know) brought her here. After she learned how to eat, Carroña (her mum/dad) just became her enemy, they always fought!!!. She is the Queen of the place, always start complaining really loudly when other pigeons appears. Even if she knows for about 2 years, eats from my hand and likes to walk along my arm up to my shoulder, she doesn't really like to be touched, just tolerate it, LOL.

Alitas in the back, the little light grey one (sorry, don't really know about types of pigeons), she has a husband that is HUGE! She comes and go, really never stays long.

Appart from these ones, my visitors also includes:

Hittly, cannot put here his full name, don't want to be banned LOL, but he is dark grey and has a white mark in the front of the head, between his eyes like if he had a moustach... Huge boy, boyfriend of Alitas. Not too much aggresive, doesn't fight much for the food or the ownership of my window.

Puntas Blancas: Another boy, sometimes comes to bother the rest of the group, other times just to eat, he used to come to eat really late, like 12 am or even later, he sleeps down home in the shop sign.

Matilda (boy) and Novia (girl), they are a couple, they come here daily since 2023... I know they had a LOT of eggs and probably kids... A month and a bit ago they brough their little baby, Celestita, here to learn to eat, she (I think) stayed here for like 3 weeks, she found a place to sleep in the same sign as Puntas Blancas and since like a week and a half, she (and another pigeon that also slept there) dissapeared, so I think they just found another flock...

The oldes one of the group is Carroña, I knew here for about 3 year and stopped coming here like 2 months ago.... She always came here, a couplo of time she took a week vacation, but always came back, not now :( She has an IG account :)

Others that are not longer with us:

Clotilda (my first one), it took me days until she got confident and didn't just flew away in fear.

Naranjita and Rodolfo, a couple, Naranjita lost a leg, Rodo had both feet with issues and then lost a leg and had the remaing one in a really bad shape, couldn't stand up, I always tried to give him food (but it was difficult with the rest of the team trying to get some of that). Naranjita stopped showing up, Rodo stayed like 2 more months and stopped showing up too :'(

Morochita, also appeared one day with one foot deformed. Formed a couple with Catalina, and one day, dissapeared.

Catalina, boyfriend of Morochita, he stopped coming here after Morochita dissapeared, but every night I see him sleeping accross the avenue.

Lots of babies that I feed and then dissapeared, I want to believe that they just join another flock and are happy flying through the city...

Well, I just wanted to show you a video and ended up telling you the story of my visitors.

Photos:

1. Puntas Blancas
2. Celestita
3. Matilda and Novia
4. Hijita
5. Brownie (it was summer and he discovered that that huge with thing throwed fresh air, he used to enter just to stand in front of the fan)
6. Matilda
7. Novia
8. Matilda and Novia
9. Carroña
10. Carroña
11. Carroña
12. Hijita, the first time she came here, on the left, and Carroña, showing her how to eat.

I’m in N.Miami Beach

Band #25067 best I can read.

Fiesty fella. He loves safflower and sunflower, and has realized the hand can get it out of the packet for him. This is common area on the ground, not his place. Since seeing this fella when he was outside from young he has always been a quick to slap type of fella, anything that goes to his left and not below him he'll slap first. He is entirely blind out of his right side, because of this if he turns his too far left he easily moves the seebs out of vision. He may look like he is pinching really hard but isn't really grabbing at all, many times he's just sticking his beak between my fingers and moving his mouth, seems to like his beak rubbed.

I'm a new pigeon mom and would like to better understand his behaviour. I believe he is a boy as he is more territorial and loud then a female would be, as i've read.

He is about 6 to 8 months old I guess, but has been with me for a week only (i’ve adopted him, he was rescued after falling from the nest).

He has a small bedroom all for himself, and tho I understand he is somewhat territorial of his space he coos for us to go there and just chill with him.

The thing is, he loves to attack my hands and even wing slaps me. Sometimes it is because I touch something of his or don't let him go somewhere, like on top of my keyboard lol i did play fight with him a couple of times but stopped once I realized its not always playing for him.

Sometimes its random and more aggressive.

Today he was fine chilling on my legs and lightly pecking my phone and fingers while I scrolled, but once my husband came to the door he jumped on my shoulder, pecked my cheek then started biting my hands aggressively, also wing slapping me. I'm yet to notice if it happens more often if my husband comes close or is more random.

He is a cute guy otherwise, eats from our hands since day one, sits on my lap to preen himself, loves to sit on our heads and adores spending time with us. I was able to pet him once or twice.

Is this hormonal? Does he not like me? Or maybe he likes my husband more and gets jealous?

I love him so much and its not a big deal, just trying to understand him better and maybe learn how not to encourage bad behaviours.

I was at the park by my apartment and found a squab huddled under a ledge. Its parents were very upset. Loose dogs were chasing it and it was making noise and trying to fly back up to the ledge where the nest seems to be, but it can’t get off the ground. On top of that, it’s snowing lightly and will be below freezing tonight.

I got in touch with someone affiliated with the pigeon rescue who said to bring it back to my apartment for now because it needs help if it can’t fly, and contact their rescue, but they haven’t gotten back to me yet.

What do I do in the meantime? I haven’t given it any food or water at all. I’ve had it with me for about 30 minutes. I think he is from the same flock that hangs out near my balcony, the park is only a few minutes’ walk from my house.

It can stand, walk, and flutter. Looks clear eyed without injuries but obviously it’s terrified. I have it in a large square basket with a cover and can put it in a wire dog crate but want to give it some peace and quiet for now.

Smartypants (right) has been visiting my balcony ever since she self rescued with an injured wing as a juvenile last summer. This is her mate of about one month on the left named Phoenix. They decided it was warm enough today for bath time! Tight fit though, I might get them a bigger birdbath.

i know some beaks and body postures are unethical. but pigeon.

Sky reminds me of the sky. She's got a lightness to her, a pep in her step, and her plumage is like a cloudy spring day. She's also a to-be-mother, and soon she'll be anchoring down on earth to prepare for her kids' imminent arrival (as soon as she can find them).

My pigeon series is finished finally! I’m so happy with how they all turned out and how they look like part of the same family. I love pigeys.