on rock pigeons and feral pigeons

An elaborate piece has been written about it at ebirds...

https://ebird.org/news/rock-pigeon/

There could be an argument to just accept Feral pigeon behaviour in cities as feature of their natural addaptability. But that only would only be right in Eurasia and Africa, where the birds might have arrived on their own.
Australia and the Americas would probably have not been colonized if not for the active import of Feral Pigeons by mostly European settlers.

The species apparently is native here:
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22690066/86070297

Posted on July 8, 2019 10:42 AM by housecrows