Tag: rock pigeon

Birds

Eating a Pigeon

January 9, 2017 by Corey 2 Comments

While wandering around my home borough on Sunday morning doing some post-snowstorm birding I made my way to Oakland Lake in northeastern Queens with the...

Peregrine falcon on roof of brick building

Birds

Falcon on the Roof

October 7, 2016 by Carrie No Comments

I’ve written before about the surprising and sometimes lovely variety of forms that the simple Rock Pigeon can take, and how much fun there...

Birds

Fancy Pigeon Blues

May 29, 2015 by Carrie No Comments

Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. As I have pointed out before, we...

Birds

Pigeon Portraits

December 1, 2014 by Corey 4 Comments

Pigeons get no respect. More reviled than perhaps any other species for the mess they make, their copious poop, and their general ubiquity, they...

Birds

Feral Pigeons World Wide

July 24, 2014 by Dragan 4 Comments

New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list....

Birds

Building Birds for Cities, and Cities for Birds

March 28, 2014 by Carrie 1 Comment

Via John of A DC Birding Blog, I ran across an article about a recent French study that suggests that urban birds may be...

Inspiration

The Dove Who Came In From the Cold

January 18, 2013 by Carrie No Comments

Not in any espionage sense. Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a...

Trips

October 14, 2012 by Clare M 7 Comments

On our recent trip to Kununurra on the Western Australia/Northern Territory border we camped right next to the Hidden Valley National Park, because you...

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