somebody hurt a pigeon once and i happened across it. went and got a loaf of multi=grain bread for it. when i returned with the bread, a couple dozen other pigeons had arrived and were guarding the hurt bird by circling around it and ministering to it
i think the bird probably was okay, i called a local vet and he said to forget about it. i am not going on his advice because I am not sure he really cared (though he could have earned a good fee had he let me bring the bird in to him). But the bird seemed only to have been grazed, minor wound as best i could tell, so he probably got better. the other birds did not gobble up the bread, they made sure he got it. much higher behavioral standards than most people display, that’s for sure.
and of course pigeons are great navigators and helped make Rothschild rich, smile smile smile
there’s a lot more to these birds than many people think
when the local cafeteria served its weekly “chicken chow mein”, all the pigeons that usually congregated in the patio made themselves absent (at least, I hope that it wasn’t the chef who absented the birds)
“when the local cafeteria served its weekly “chicken chow mein”, all the pigeons that usually congregated in the patio made themselves absent (at least, I hope that it wasn’t the chef who absented the birds)”
Oh dear. I hope not! :-)