Why do we never see pigeons? Bashny.Net

Urban residents may seem that the number of pigeons increases in some magical way - all the birds that we see on the street are adults, but nowhere and we never see chicks.





Be sure - there are chicks, but what we do not see them, there's a good explanation. This is partly due to the fact where nesting birds: pigeons build their nests in places that resemble caves and rocks - it tells them the blood of ancestors who lived off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. In metropolitan areas pigeons build nests in any of these places - under the sill, on roofs, under bridges. In large cities, people have built a lot of different artificial rocks.



Another reason that the chicks pigeons can not meet in the streets, that they do not leave the nest four to six weeks after birth until they grow up. City dwellers tend to talk about pigeons as flying rats, but pigeons - very good parents. Male and female together feed their young, and if one parent dies, the other is making every effort to raise offspring, although he and you have twice as heavy. So the chicks usually survive.



After the chicks leave the nest, they start to ignore their parents and eat without assistance. Young pigeons join the flock of birds living near the nest - in a nearby park, for example. Pigeons have their own territory, where they mainly live, and if you carry out a dove, he will try to return to the usual places.



But perhaps what we do not see chicks, even good - they are very ugly: almost naked, with a few feathers translucent pinkish hue. But a young pigeon can be determined by a number of small downy feathers sticking out of the back of the head.