Great topics! I love pigeons and rats and Rosemary Mosco. (The first we featured in our own newsletter early on, the second I had as pets myself for several years, and the third, well, she's just awesome.) I recently read in an online forum that a number of cities in Europe have been changing strategies when it comes to pigeon overpopulation, and building lofts where they provide the pigeons with nutritious food and then swap out the eggs they lay with fakes. Apparently it leads to happier, healthier pigeons who don't crowd the streets looking for handouts, and whose population will slowly decrease over time.
That is such a neat strategy! I love your Mouse and Minnow newsletter on pigeons, and completely agree that pigeons are quite intelligent -- and possibly even fashionable. :) https://mouseandminnow.substack.com/p/city-pigeon-strut
Isn't it incredible? It makes me want to try to build a pigeon dovecot -- a sort of honeycombed structure for keeping pigeons -- at the Madison Building for all the pigeons that live there. Maybe right next to the Victory Garden?
I always liked Bert and his pigeons.
He's the best!
Great topics! I love pigeons and rats and Rosemary Mosco. (The first we featured in our own newsletter early on, the second I had as pets myself for several years, and the third, well, she's just awesome.) I recently read in an online forum that a number of cities in Europe have been changing strategies when it comes to pigeon overpopulation, and building lofts where they provide the pigeons with nutritious food and then swap out the eggs they lay with fakes. Apparently it leads to happier, healthier pigeons who don't crowd the streets looking for handouts, and whose population will slowly decrease over time.
That is such a neat strategy! I love your Mouse and Minnow newsletter on pigeons, and completely agree that pigeons are quite intelligent -- and possibly even fashionable. :) https://mouseandminnow.substack.com/p/city-pigeon-strut
Thanks! I had no idea that all the pigeons we see are from domesticated stock
Isn't it incredible? It makes me want to try to build a pigeon dovecot -- a sort of honeycombed structure for keeping pigeons -- at the Madison Building for all the pigeons that live there. Maybe right next to the Victory Garden?