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Dead Birds
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We feed the birds in our garden twice a day and they are constantly in the garden. No particularly exciting species, just the usual urban varieties: sparrows, starlings, pigeons, a dove, goldfinches, tits of various sizes, magpies etc. The only time that we have ever seen a dead bird is when a pigeon has flown into a window and broken its neck. Do they go away to die somewhere? Are there avian equivalents of Elephants' graveyards? I don't want to see dead birds but I would have thought that with the amount of live birds we see every day, statistically there would be a likelihood over fifty odd years that we would have found a dead one. (We no longer have a cat but there are several who still come into our garden)
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interesting read https://ornithology.com/why-dont-you-see-dead-birds-laying-around/
10:06 Mon 11th Oct 2021
I never thought about baby pigeons. Of course, I was very used to seeing lots of pigeons everywhere but didn't realise I had never seen a baby pigeon until I saw one in its nest, by chance.
By the time pigeon sqaubs leave the nest they are near identical in feather and size to the parent - they stay in the nest twice as long as most other birds.
I found it interesting https://www.birdspot.co.uk/bird-brain/why-dont-you-see-baby-pigeons
By the time pigeon sqaubs leave the nest they are near identical in feather and size to the parent - they stay in the nest twice as long as most other birds.
I found it interesting https:/