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FedLadSonOfAnfield

FedLadSonOfAnfield

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Anyone know much about these or keep them themselves??

Had one land out the back of the house yesterday evening looking exhausted. It perched on the top of a bush for all the evening and stayed there overnight. When I got up it was still there but later this morning it used some of its remaining energy to fly/limp onto the top of the outhouse but was so tired it was sliding off and other birds were attacking it. So out of pity I got the ladders out, clambered up and took it down without much fuss as it was too tired to struggle.

I left it in a box outside with some seeds and a bowl of water. It took a little drink of water and then went back pretty much to how it had been, head between its wings, feathers all puffed out. I went out thinking it would be gone by the time I come back as this has happened before and the bird lighted, but when I came back this evening I found it had died.

It had all the tags on its legs so traced its owner to the Lake District. My theory is that it had been taken and released too far for it to fly and had just run out of energy and got exhausted and given up the ghost but I don't really know anything about how they fly. Any clues you lot??
 
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basically either got lost or just plain did not make it.

They need energy food. sugar water for instance... but in the end..... pidgeons are vermin.
 
RedLadSonofAnfield said:
It's dead and buried mate!! Read back! Phoned the owner and they said put it in the ground.
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Ah crap. Shame. I worked in a shop years ago where a homing pigeon was hit by something, injured and suffering shock. Manager called rspb iirc and they did the rest.
 
It looked on its last legs when it first landed so thought calling specialists would be pretty pointless

I'm just curious how they fly. How do they navigate and so on. If they no where they're going why did it let itself get so tired, dehydrated, hungry that it dies in the end. Surely they know to stop at certain points to feed and water themselves?? Certain birds cross continents no problem.
 
RedLadSonofAnfield said:
It looked on its last legs when it first landed so thought calling specialists would be pretty pointless

I'm just curious how they fly. How do they navigate and so on. If they no where they're going why did it let itself get so tired, dehydrated, hungry that it dies in the end. Surely they know to stop at certain points to feed and water themselves?? Certain birds cross continents no problem.
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They are not that smart.

nobody really knows how they do it. The theories are to do with the sun and with magnetic fields...

Maybe it was just a really dull day and the pidgoen couldn't get a fix on direction as a result. you said it landed for the night

the thing is all bird use landscape and way points to find there way to places... so maybe it followed the wrong one.

I dunno... but pidgeons aint exaclty the most able to get food... the wild ones are stupid as F and you have to honk your car horn cos they don't see cars coming...
 
moreinjuredthanowen said:
They are not that smart.

nobody really knows how they do it. The theories are to do with the sun and with magnetic fields...

Maybe it was just a really dull day and the pidgoen couldn't get a fix on direction as a result. you said it landed for the night

the thing is all bird use landscape and way points to find there way to places... so maybe it followed the wrong one.

I dunno... but pidgeons aint exaclty the most able to get food... the wild ones are stupid as F and you have to honk your car horn cos they don't see cars coming...
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I agree pigeons are fundamentally idiot dead-head birds just have to watch them trying to use feeders and that, the little finches and tits and robins have better brain power with heads half the size. Quite liked this one though, seemed... different
 
RedLadSonofAnfield said:
I'm just curious how they fly. How do they navigate and so on. If they no where they're going why did it let itself get so tired, dehydrated, hungry that it dies in the end. Surely they know to stop at certain points to feed and water themselves?? Certain birds cross continents no problem.
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Took a photo of a pigeon in the garden this morning when he thought no one was about. In built navigation my arse!






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Rats with wings. The things **** all over the place and it's carcinogenic, plus they breed like rabbits.

I cull the ****ers twice a year.
 
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