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c0rpseductor · 10 hours

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was looking in the comments for pigeon video to find the name of the song and one of the people in there was like “NOOO DONT MAKE FUN OF HIM WE BRED NESTMAKING OUT OF PIGEONS </3” and im just. What? have you ever seen a mourning dove nest? this is a natural goofy columbidae behavior

#like the way pigeons were domesticated and abandoned appalls me too #it’s horrible and the feral populations hurt my heart when i think about it #but like. we don’t have to make things up about their behavior.#anyway from everything i’ve read the consensus is that it’s actually bc pigeons were bred from rock doves #so they would naturally make their nests on rocky ledges and need little or no material to keep the egg stationary and safe #which is also pretty suited for urban environments given the preponderance of manmade ledges #why fucking mourning doves also do it i couldn’t say #but. there you have it

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