This video host is quite the perky one, I have to say. While people adopting and taking birds into their own homes may not be a great idea in general, there seem to have been exigent circumstances in this case.
One other thing about pigeons, which I can infer from a number of recent finds on YouTube, is that they're popular in the Mideast. Not just for racing and messaging, but as pets in themselves. Curious how that came about.
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Perky is right - a bit annoying with it too. Usually, when we hear of pigeons and people it's for those reasons you mentioned - racing and messaging - and those birds live in special dovecotes. This one looks quite sweet with her light brown coloring and the little feathered feet - more like a magician's dove than a street pigeon. Maybe I didn't watch the video long enough (too much sunniness) but from what I know it's not possible to housebreak birds and that's not something I'd put up with from any free roaming creature.
I'm sure I told you about the pigeon family that inhabited our balcony in Halifax the last summer we spent there. While it was interesting to watch the two squabs develope it's not an experiment we'd prefer to duplicate.
I have read about large dovecotes built in Europe and the Middle East where the birds were used as a food source, their guano as fertilizer, plus, they were good at keeping insects away from crops.
You're not entirely wrong about her being annoying. Maybe that's just a result of her intending the lesson for a child audience. The talking down and all that. If birds can't be housebroken then that accounts for why just about everyone with a pet bird keeps it in a cage. Certainly having a pigeon inside your house could make things a little uncomfortable.
Well, you've had one family of pigeons living right outside your apartment. That's one more than most people will get, or perhaps would want. Still, it must have been a sight to see.
Oh wow. Those dovecotes are quite a sight. It is illuminating that they took so well to farm life. Of course there are an awful lot of different kinds of farm.
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