Doves and Pigeons

Pigeon pox is virual with no known treatment. You can swab the lesions with diluted betadine or tea tree oil. The bird should be isolated since the disease is contagious. It is normally not fatal. There is no danger of transmission to humans.

yes by using horse hair and putting it through a raisan and feeding it to them and it chokes them :)

Pigeons are not blind as a general rule. Like all species there are exceptions to the rule and some may be born blind or become blind for various reasons. These do not typically survive in the wild. I wonder if you are thinking of the hunting birds where they keep the birds heads hooded to keep them calm then take off the hood just before they want them to "hunt" the prey. I do not know much about these sporting birds or why they are kept hooded.

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A female dove is slightly smaller and weighs less than the male dove. The female's head appears to be slightly flatten, where as the male dove has a more rounded profile from the side.

Rock dove, Pink pigeon, Eurasian collared dove, Wood-pigeon, Mourning dove, Magnificent fruit pigeon, New Zealand pigeon, Victoria crowned pigeon, Crowned sandgrouse and Namaqua sandgrouse.

A young pigeon is called a squab.

Some people say they do not. However, candidiasis is fungus spread by pigeons. Birds are great carriers of spreading disease due to the great distances they travel and many things they encounter.

No, they will eat the occasional bug, but that's about it for live food. Mainly seeds.

Ferral pigeons around could have illness. Once they are in your home, the only way to repel them is extermination.

millions of pounds over a span of many trips

A pigeon individually lays each egg, typically with a clutch of only 2.

Nothing can fly without a complete wing or set of wings. Balance would be off primarily.

Pigeons are monumentally important to the future of the world! They are the beacons of hope shining into a thousand universes, acting as the protector of every living species and the guardians of honour, hope, and all that is approximately ten centimetres high and feathery! Can I haz cheezburger nau?

One for each eye.

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The name for a baby pigeon is a SQUAB.

Yes, the commonly used poisons for rats and mice will kill raccoons. Raccoons can also die from eating a dead rat or mouse that was killed with poisons.

Song birds are generally small garden birds, so called because of their singing. Birds of prey are bigger, and not known for their singing abilities, so in answer to your question, No, a song bird is not a bird of prey

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A group of pigeons does not have any special kind of name. They are simply known as a flock, just as other birds whose groupings do not have specific names.

Homing pigeons carry out their long-range navigational feat thanks to tiny magnetic particles in their upper beaks, scientists confirm.

The New Zealand scientists publish their research on how pigeons sense the Earth's magnetic field in today's issue of the journal Nature.

Pigeon-watchers have squabbled as to whether the birds return to their lofts by using these magnetic particles as a microscopic compass, or by using different odours in the atmosphere as signposts.

Researchers led by Dr Cordula Mora, who was at the University of Auckland when the research was conducted, placed homing pigeons in a specially-built wooden tunnel that had a feeder platform at each end and magnetic coils attached to its top and bottom.

The birds were trained to go to one particular feeding tray if the Earth's natural magnetic field was left unperturbed, and to the other tray if the coils were switched on.

The birds suddenly lost this navigational ability when magnets were attached to their beaks or if their beaks were anaesthetised.

The ability was also disrupted if the trigeminal nerve, which carries optical signals to the brain, was severed.

But it was not impaired if the olfactory nerve, which sends odour signals to the brain, was cut.

The findings point to the mineral magnetite as the navigational aid. This form of iron oxide is one of the most magnetic minerals on Earth.

But optical clues to navigation cannot be ruled out. Another theory is that pigeons also use the direction of Sun as a pointer.

Still unresolved is the puzzle about how the brain receives the signals from the magnetite.

Magnetite as a compass

It's not just birds that use magnetite as a compass. Humans have harnessed its magnetic properties for centuries.

Reports date back to the 12th century of the Chinese using lodestones, rocks made of a special type of magnetite, as an early from of compass.

Only magnetite with a certain crystalline structure can act as a lodestone, and only if exposed to a magnetic field. In nature, that might be a lightning strike.

Scientists have also found magnetite in some bacteria, bees, even humans.

Pigeons, also called Doves are a species of bird, the best known pigeon is the feral Rock Pigeon or Rock Dove, which is common in many cities around the world. They are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a distingtive cooing call, young pigeons and doves are called "squabs." Click on the related link to see more details and a few pictures.

I have sent my squirrel army to silence you. Ask them when they get there, and add one for yourself. They will attack any squirrel trying to kill someone!

They say pigeon but also often call them "rats with wings".