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Strange pigeon behaviour
Sacha wrote:
Does anyone know why wood pigeons lie down in the grass on our lawn? We've seen several of them do it but can't say we've noticed it particularly before this year. It doesn't seem to matter whether the grass has just been cut or not, nor whether it's rained or is dry. They're alone when they do it and often remain stationary for several minutes. We haven't noticed that the collared doves do it, only the wood pigeons, it seems. According to the expert on uk.rec.birdwatching some birds do sunbathe. His answer to my question as to whether they do sunbathe was: "Yes. A paper in British Birds in 1969 on sunbathing in birds listed over 170 species of 48 families across the world, with a couple of dozen species in the pigeon/dove family, including Woodpigeon." So we can only assume that in the absence of any ants, they must have been sunbathing. Peter -- He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled he was far from being gruntled. P.G. Wodehouse 1881 - 1975 |
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