• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I see pigeons sat near them, lamenting the fact that nobody is making ones big enough for them to nest in.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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        6 days ago

        ‘Perfectly capable’.

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

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

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        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.

        • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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          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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          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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    6 days ago

    i always thought they were for birds to have sex in… nope. turns out we’re subsidizing lazy birds housing problems. bastards.

    birds just dont want to work today