#lucerne pigeon

[heartspark]

Starry Pigeon dragon 💙✨️

I wanted to make a dragon inspired by my favorite type of pigeon! Lucernes 💙

The auction for this follow is going on on my other socials if interested ✨️💙✨️

[pompadorned]

Some dodoodles of dodos with color patterns based on domestic pigeons 🦤

[souporwholock]

What if we kissed in front of the vintage Burwood serving tray 👉👈

(featuring Rose and Bowie, who have only known each other for 2 days)

[dogmime]

looks just like you !

[pidgewynn]

WAIT! THAT'S ME! *IM* pigeon owner friend!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Crest info: Rose is a Lucerne pigeon... Yes, a peak crest!

Bowie however, is half Old Dutch Capuchine and half Old German Owl... Which makes part mane part shell crest, kind of. He's just bowie-ing!!

pigeon owner friend has approved, so i will trade you pigeon pics for wisp ref images. these are the two pigeons i will be using. their names are rose and bowie. bowie is the darker brown pigeon and rose is the lighter brown pigeon. they are both very beloved.

OH MY GOODNESS TELL YOUR FRIEND I LOVE THEM

Rose and Bowie oh darlings they are precious (are they peak crest's???) They look very much loved and are both such gorgeous birds

Wisp is a very "Basic" pigeon (but for my bird obsessed ass who never lived in the city, these babies are so pretty-) She was built to "blend in" with the feral birds but still has some features that Tim can recognize from a far.

The main thing being her wings that are speckled in a dark blueish grey coloration and a lil white on her neck. Of course shes completely up to interpretation- this is just how I imagine her for the most part :)

[awkward-parabuteo]

All I've got for Thanksgiving dinner is this thang

[iambittythings]

Today's beast is the lovely Lucerne Gold Collar pigeon, A+ pretty little coo birds. 🕊️ I really enjoy pigeons, I try to make at least a few a year.

If you'd like a bird or beast, please check out Bittythings and Beasts.

https://bittythingsandbeasts.etsy.com

[harpalion]

it’s crazy how literally all i want to talk about recently is pigeons. autism is the most powerful force

[plush-pigeon]

it would be cool if pidoves had the variety of real pigeons

[suppenzeit]

if i was in charge of gomens i would give the angels and such real bird wings. (aziraphale is a lucerne pigeon, crowley is a raven, gabriel is an eagle)

[pigeonwarrior]

[heartspark]

I finally settled on a name! Meet Milo!

I chose Milo because hes super clumsy and awkward. Just like the main character from one of my favorite movies, Atlantis. 🤎

[nachotrash]

While sunlight isn’t a foreign concept to the Duke of Meropede, it isn’t often that Wriothesley gets to actually enjoy the rays of the sun, usually bound to his office in the Fortress of Meropede going through countless stacks of paperwork and boxes of tea. He used to only go to the overworld for official business, but that soon changed after the two of you started dating. And when he does finally come out of the Fortress, he goes all out.

Wriothesley brings a couple rainbow roses that he plucked on the way to pick you up, presenting them to you after you exchange a greeting kiss. You spend the rest of the morning doing all kinds of stuff: shopping, feeding pigeons, strolling through both the Quartier Narbonnais and the Vasari Passage, before picking up a basket with fresh food from Café Lucerne.

He takes your hand and leads you to the grass hills right outside the city, finding a nice spot with some shade where the two of you share a comforting and delicious meal, chatting about all kinds of topics. It warms your heart to see the oh so ruthless Duke of Meropede finally relax a little. After the picnic, you two lay down in the grass, fingers intertwined as you let your skin soak up the warmth of the midday sun. You look to your side to see your boyfriend staring at you with a loving smile on his face. Both of you stare at eachother for a few seconds before bursting into laughter, as he reaches out and pulls you in a tight hug.

It might not look like it, but the intimidating man with so many titles is incredibly and utterly head over heels for you, and you know that no matter what titles he may gain in the future, he’ll always stay by your side. Not “His Grace”, not “The Lord”, no. Just Wriothesley. Your Wriothesley.

A/N: wrote this for my friend like last year and idk why I never posted it but here it is lmao. Soft n tender moments with Wriothesley 🥺

[homeofhousechickens]

What type of pigeon is Fluffernutter? I think that’s my favorite type but I don’t know it’s name 😊

Mixed breed

Lucernes and Classic Old Frills are going to be what looks like him but he is part Classic Old Frill, Racing Homer, Archangel, and Old German Owl.

[pigeon-behavior]

So how many birds do you own nowadays?

These days not many! Only 4!

It would have been more; I was making plans to expand my loft essentially 2x larger, but basically I got smited (smote?) by god or some shit in late 2021 and in 2022 was diagnosed with an incurable disability. The only reason I was able to keep the birds I did is because I live with others who have taken over cleaning and feeding.

A decent chunk of my birds I sent to my breeder friend, Renaissance Loft (Hemlock, Newt, and at least 2 of the kids that Newt had while in my loft both live there, Frost and Butternut).

I felt that it was a major shame to waste their breeding potential in my loft. I don't think pigeons need babies to be fulfilled or anything, but Hemlock and Newt consistently make friendly, confident babies, and they are EXCELLENT fathers, and those aren't things you can get just anywhere. Someone should utilize them! And so Ren is. Newt's blood has made it up into Canada at Keepsakes Loft and into pet homes through Ren, and I know someone else who owns a son of Hemlock's in a predominantly Old Dutch Turbit loft who is planning to breed for companions if they don't already. Not that I think ODTs need the temperament boost really, they seem pretty fucking friendly.

My current birds are my original pair, the High-Flying Tipplers Cloud and Taako (who also make insanely bombproof children, but less people are interested in pet pigeons that look so standard, so Mine), Taro, a half Classic Old Frill, half Lucerne sired by Hemlock, and Ivy, a Classic Old Frill with some Archangel heritage that makes her absolutely gorgeous. I decided to keep her and Taro because they are tangentially related to each other through Taro's mother, Lotus.

Normally, this wouldn't necessarily be a dealbreaker with pigeons, just something to be considered. But Lotus passed of an unavoidable condition called egg yolk peritonitis, or EYP. In her case it was genetic. Combining that with some other strange health problems spotted in the line, it's been agreed among our circle to no longer breed birds of this line to each other.

So I hung onto those two, considering I can't send them as a breeding pair to anyone and I can trust my own hatch control! Plus, it's very nice to have Taro around - he is such a blend of his mother and his father, both of whom I miss for different reasons. It's really nice to have a piece of them around, being an absolute goofball and being ridiculously large ♥️

[forsuperbang]

So here's my chronology (headcanon) pertaining to the Villefort family (with Hermine as a bonus) :

October, 3rd, 1787 – birth of Gérard. The 3rd of October is also his name day, and in the republican calendar it is the day of Helichrysum stoechas (l'immortelle in french). It means that the last time we see him he's 50 years-old.

April, 14th, 1794 – birth of Renée de Saint-Méran. She's born just before the end of the Reign of Terror. In the republican calendar, it is the day of the pigeon, which is known for its affectionate nature. Funnily enough, it is also Maximilien's name day.

October, 18th, 1802 – birth of Hermine. October 18th is the name day of Lucien (her lover, *wink* and in the republican calendar it is the day of chili pepper, given that she is a woman of character. I also wanted her to be born the same month as Gérard, because they're bound by a (love) child.

February, 25th, 1813 – birth of Héloïse. I wanted her to be born the 25th, as an omen for the age she'll die (25 years-old). In the republican calendar it is the day of Rhamnus alaternus, whose fruits are red and turn to black.

September, 27th, 1817 (canon) – birth of Benedetto. His father would have been 29 years-old and his mother 14 years-old.

May, 20th, 1819 – birth of Valentine. I had a hard time picking up a day because of all the contradictions in the book, but the 20th of May is, in the republican calendar, the day of Medicago sativa (the lucerne) which is actually mentionned in the book. Her father is 31 years-old then, and her mother is 24 years-old.

February, 23rd, 1828 – death of Renée. Yes, her death is two days before Héloïse's birthday, by design.

March, 1st, 1829 – wedding of Gérard and Héloïse. Gérard did respect the one year of mourning before remarrying, but he probably courted Héloïse during that same year, which is why Mme de Saint-Méran resents him. Édouard would have been conceived very soon after the wedding. Gérard is 41 years-old, and Héloïse is 16 years-old.

January, 4th, 1830 – birth of Édouard. In the republican calendar, it is the day of the bunny, which supposedly was a bad omen for sailors. The number 4 also is close in pronounciation to death is East Asia. His father is 42 years-old then, and his mother is 16 years-old. He's eight when he dies.