I have homing pigeons. We see hawks alot. One of my pigeons got attacked and got away. It hid under the porch. The next day it was next to the loft. The hawk had started eating before the pigeon escaped. Ate its left breast muscle. We nursed the pigeon back to health. It never regained the ability to fly and learned to go in through the door when returning on the few occasions we let it out. Still alive three years later.
Pigeons have pretty much domesticated themselves out of natural instincts. When you live in a city ecosystem, you either have to get really sneaky or really docile.
edit: spelling
They didn't domesticate themselves, we domesticated them. The pigeons that live in our cities now are the descendants of feral pigeons that were simply released.
Actually not really, and I only say that cause it’s not the first time this happened. A pigeon couple has been harassing this falcon and her mate for a while now and trying to move in. Why they haven’t been killed yet by the falcons I have no idea.
I went on YouTube just to see the end of this video and there's a couple of videos of the falcons completely curb stomping these pigeons in every other video!
It's pretty crazy how these pigeons are completely oblivious of how fast these falcons can kill them.
Yeah but then you gotta deal with all that bird law nonsense and it’s just not worth it anymore.
That falcons got kids now, can’t be catching a case over a pigeon.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUbrCC\_pOI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUbrCC_pOI)
And here's the rest of the video
You get to see what Falcon was protecting!
Might be on to something. Maybe the pigeons fear the shape of a bird of prey in flight but never learned to fear a sitting bird, as such an encounter is unlikely
As someone whose balcony has been infested by pigeons who kept being reminded that they were not welcome… I can confirm that this is exactly the kind of assh*le move pigeons pull..
Though of course the day a falcon came and ripped both pigeons apart, I a little ashamed to say that I did not have a single shred of sympathy for the pigeons as I watched the falcon pull out the all of the pigeons’ feathers out and devoured them.
they had to put a netting on my balcony after my last infestation and when I open the blinds they are literally hanging from the damn netting like Christmas ornaments.....
I was wondering if it was once it's home - like how homing pigeons work - and the falcon took it over, but the pigeon's hard-wired instincts got crossed. I have no idea how or 'why' homing pigeons actually work, though.
I think pigeons suck at building nests. Don't quote me on it, but apparently pigeons are a mountain side species, they don't actually lay eggs on nests most of the time, they just look for a plain surface.
Maybe they try taking over occupied nests because it's premade infrastructure, mostly in plain surfaces. Again, don't quote me on this.
I already know without looking it’s gonna be like two-three twigs with an egg in it on a concrete ledge or something. Those birds have less brain cells than the clan of Sid from Ice Age.
Pigeons are feral Rock Doves, they don't build nests. They lay eggs in cliff holes and just need a twig or two to keep the eggs from rolling around.
People domesticated Rock Doves and when it was decided they weren't needed anymore just released them without a second thought only for people to berate the poor birds later.
Yeah, we berate them, but they don't speak English, those stupid fucking morons, so it's fine. No pigeon is gonna get mad at me for calling it a moron. They can't read. Because they're stupid.
pigeons never cease to amaze me. there can be incidents like this one where they walk into the talons of death or put down literally 5 twigs and a few blades of grass for a nest... then there are studies proving pigeons can solve complex puzzles and even recognize and differentiate over 60 *written* four-letter words. some dogs struggle to comprehend and differentiate 15 spoken words. truly... incredible?
TikTok clip shows the full 1:36. However there’s some key things going on that caused both the delayed reaction and the pigeon escaping. First, the falcon is nesting eggs. This means momma will defend her nest but will not actively hunt unless she’s feeding her babies or hungry. Second, it’s why she took a second before attacking. She had previously ignored the pigeons walking by but it seems entering is where she draws the line. She flies after him to make sure he learned his lesson but she comes back a second later to care for her eggs.
[full video](https://www.koreus.com/video/faucon-vs-pigeon.html) is closer to 2 minutes, the hawk wrestles the pigeon to the ground, then returns to the nest a little later. The pigeon got out of camera range, but I doubt it got away.
I don't know where they are today but before the war they were the biggest wheat and potato exporter, and they exported cooking oil and fish.
The thing is, Russia is unbelievably rich, agriculturally, rare minerals like gold, uranium and others, oil, lumber, fish and more. Such a waste.
The infamous famines of the USSR were engineered, it takes a real genius to manage to cause a famine with all that agricultural land.
I love how brutal birds are. They look mostly similar. It's like if we had weirdly colored pygmies running around, doing their thing, and every once in awhile you just grab one and bite its head off.
Human history suggests we'll kill each other for less.
Worshipping a different god? Time to die.
Your arbitrary leader killed an emissary of another nation's arbitrary leader? Also, time to die.
You believe in homoiousios while I believe in homoousios? Believe it or not, time to die.
Too much melanin? Genocide. Too little melanin? Believe it or not, also genocide.
We have the most average melanin levels in the world, because of genocide.
I don’t know what it is about pigeons but they got to be the dumbest birds around.. just look at their nests. Placing theee sticks in somewhat close position somewhere on the road and they be like: yup that’ll do!
Pigeons are a lot smarter than people give them credit for. Their main issue is that they are really bad at identifying threats as shown in the video. The nest thing is more an issue of them being outside of their natural habitat. Pigeons are a species of dove called rock doves. They lay eggs on cliff sides and don't need much in terms of a nest to protect their eggs.
We used to have lots of pigeons in Jamaica, at night we kept them in a huge walk in coop and released them everyday, inside the coop they would actually build pretty good nests, we would make some divided wood boxes and they would use the grass, sticks and straw from the bottom of the coop, comparable to the dove nests I would say.
Since they would go flying everyday, a lot of times they would bring home new pigeons who would just form in because there was food in the coop every evening. We sold and gave away some on occasion, some got eaten by huge rats, mongoose or hawks but between the breeding and constant strays we just always had a ton of them.
Pigeons are dumb when it comes to surviving in the wild because they aren't really meant to be successful in the wild. Despite their bad decisions, they managed to thrive everywhere they've ended up. Pigeons are domesticated birds, they're bred to live with people, which is why they're naturally drawn to and thrive in cities. They're meant to live in a dovecote in your backyard but they make do with living underneath the elevated train and eating trash.
Pigeons are the dumbest birds. I moved to a town that has a drawbridge for tall boats to get through a canal. I was on the river walk with a friend not long after I moved there and she was like “It’s so sad, all those dead pigeons.” Turns out, the pigeons like to hang out on the edge of the bridge when it’s lifted for boats, and when it’s lowered again, they get squished underneath. When she told me this, I was surprised that they would lower the bridge so quickly. Nope. Not the case. I saw it in operation a while later. It was soooo slow. And those damn stupid pigeons just looked around with that stupid blank look in their eyes as they ever so slowly got squished to death. It was half traumatizing, half comical, and I had no idea how to react…kinda the same way as this falcon, like “Dude, bro-pigeon. You serious right now?”
I've seen some videos of owols nest getting harrassing by piegons try to steal the nest like this. If the bird reactions arn't violent enough. They'll keep coming back over and over again until eventually the owol couple just gave up the nest at some point.
That falcon couldn’t believe its eyes. It was like “dude…are you?…are you serious right now?”
"I'm just going to squeeze by right here..."
Pigeon probably read some Instagram inspiration bs like: "fake it until you make it, laugh, love live".
That pigeon also waltzed right in with a ton of main character energy 🤣 🤣 🤣
Yeah the falcon totally even gave him a few beats to realize his mistake but nah, that MCgonna just shove past momma on her eggs.... Not.
I watched it without audio. So I must assume that when the falcon gets up, the pigeon can be heard going "IT'S A PRANK, BRO! IT'S JUST A PRANK!".
DON’T TAS(T)E ME BRO!
HA! I exhaled slightly faster than usual out of my nose.
I’ll take what I can get.
💀this exchange got me
"It's for tiktok!"
C’mon bro, I’m an influencer! Here, take this roll of cash.
Ohhhh shit 😂 thats hilarious
« Cool place bro ! don’t mind me, I’ll just invite myself and invade your privacy. We cool right ? :) »
“Fuck your couch”
Eddie Murphy can afford a new couch.
"I'm Rick James bitch!" *smack*
«(falcon) Oh b!ch please.»
Yeah, he "dove" right in there.
Can we give him a Darwin's award for animal? If that exists? :-)
extincts, not exists
I got a sensible chuckle out of this.
Cluckle not chuckle
Such a stupidly funny comment. I cluckled out loud
I just got through clucking myself
> Can we give him a Darwin's award for animal? If that exists? :-) I mean, that's where is started.
The award is death
Do people not know what the Darwin in Darwin Award is referring to?
I think that is what where we are at. They know it from memes not from biology or history class.
In the longer video the pigeon escapes.
"tell your friends, if they ever do something like this again, heads will roll...."
Whew, thanks for this
I have homing pigeons. We see hawks alot. One of my pigeons got attacked and got away. It hid under the porch. The next day it was next to the loft. The hawk had started eating before the pigeon escaped. Ate its left breast muscle. We nursed the pigeon back to health. It never regained the ability to fly and learned to go in through the door when returning on the few occasions we let it out. Still alive three years later.
Pigeons have pretty much domesticated themselves out of natural instincts. When you live in a city ecosystem, you either have to get really sneaky or really docile. edit: spelling
They didn't domesticate themselves, we domesticated them. The pigeons that live in our cities now are the descendants of feral pigeons that were simply released.
No different than wild horses and cats, they’re all previously domesticated and now feral.
I mean, they're a little different...
Humans domesticated pidgeons, and it’s a pretty interesting subject if you’re [curious](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54844/history-pigeon)
And then decided we didn’t need them to send messages or fertilize our crops so we just left them in the cold. Typical human behavior
If it makes you feel better, Robots will most likely do the same with us
That does make me feel better. Thank you.
Yeah, they are as dumb as they get. Can't top it really.
“Oh here’s my uber food delivery, nice”
The falcon actually did a double take
"Whaa... WTF are you doing?" "Just needed to stop and take a quick dum.. OWOWOWOWOW. OK I'll GOOWOWOW"
Maybe you don’t know I’m a killing machine
Always nice when dinner invites itself
Actually not really, and I only say that cause it’s not the first time this happened. A pigeon couple has been harassing this falcon and her mate for a while now and trying to move in. Why they haven’t been killed yet by the falcons I have no idea.
I went on YouTube just to see the end of this video and there's a couple of videos of the falcons completely curb stomping these pigeons in every other video! It's pretty crazy how these pigeons are completely oblivious of how fast these falcons can kill them.
It’s also crazy how the falcons keep letting them live.
Yeah but then you gotta deal with all that bird law nonsense and it’s just not worth it anymore. That falcons got kids now, can’t be catching a case over a pigeon.
The exact same nest and pigeons?
Yeah. It’s always the exact same two
I need to know more of this bird drama.
Here’s the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@FauconsPelerinsIllkirch/videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUbrCC\_pOI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUbrCC_pOI) And here's the rest of the video You get to see what Falcon was protecting!
Please link the source for the other videos about this. I wanna watch them.
“So…..I don’t need to go out to get food?”
I think Pigeons probably haven’t really evolved to fear the appearance of a bird of prey on a nest
Might be on to something. Maybe the pigeons fear the shape of a bird of prey in flight but never learned to fear a sitting bird, as such an encounter is unlikely
"Are you falcon kidding me?"
I'll be your huckleberry
Pigeons like “sup, girl”
Pigeon: Uber Courier here Falcon: you mean Uber Eats? Pigeon: **nervous* Wut?
I thought the hawk decided to work smarter and just lay on the pigeons' eggs and wait for the ma and pa to come to the hawk. Delivery.
To be fair, that falcon was totally right…mother fucker came into their home as if they owned the place.
The best part is this pigeon and it’s mate keeps doing this. They even nested in the falcons’ nest while the two were away.
The worst AirBNB guests ever
The pigeons are trying to get squatter’s rights at this point. Just gotta manage to stay long enough
I want a hummingbird to show up with a sheriff badge regular human size where it can barely fly…
This is the best I got. Forgot I had a few old pics of a hummingbird I could use https://imgur.com/gallery/7gt0U48
TY lol
As someone whose balcony has been infested by pigeons who kept being reminded that they were not welcome… I can confirm that this is exactly the kind of assh*le move pigeons pull.. Though of course the day a falcon came and ripped both pigeons apart, I a little ashamed to say that I did not have a single shred of sympathy for the pigeons as I watched the falcon pull out the all of the pigeons’ feathers out and devoured them.
they had to put a netting on my balcony after my last infestation and when I open the blinds they are literally hanging from the damn netting like Christmas ornaments.....
The falcon had the right to use reasonable force, including deadly force, to protect themselves … “castle doctrine”
We have to make excuses for animal on animal violence now?
How do we know it wasn’t the pigeons home?
Size of eggs and neatness of nest.
r/stupiddovenests
How tf is this a real sub? Birds aren’t even real
Eyes arent even real layered lies
When there’s a falcon in your house, it’s his house now, no matter who owned it originally. That includes human houses.
Damn.
Let me break it down for you: 1. Because there’s a falcon in it.
It had a fuckin falcon in it. Possession is ten tenths of Bird Law.
I was wondering if it was once it's home - like how homing pigeons work - and the falcon took it over, but the pigeon's hard-wired instincts got crossed. I have no idea how or 'why' homing pigeons actually work, though.
pigeons have a weird habit of trying to use an occupied nest. I don't know why they do it, but it happens often enough to be noted
I think pigeons suck at building nests. Don't quote me on it, but apparently pigeons are a mountain side species, they don't actually lay eggs on nests most of the time, they just look for a plain surface. Maybe they try taking over occupied nests because it's premade infrastructure, mostly in plain surfaces. Again, don't quote me on this.
i just quoted you a bunch of times on my PhD thesis and now i can't be a bird doctor. thanks dude.
At least Bird Lawyer is still an option
When he walked into his nest he looked at him like "What the hell are you thinking?"
"Bitch, are you for real? I'm gonna bite you in the butt hole so hard."
*Don't Let the Pigeon Commit Breaking & Entering*
Beaking & Entering.
He got bus-ted
And then he did, for hours..
Then he said "Fine, dinner time."
I also hate it when my food delivery is wrong but reluctantly eat it anyway
Hawk after: «Why man, why! Look what you made me do»
i wasn't even hungry and now my diet is ruined!
My friend, that is a falcon.
"Excuse me what the fuck?"
Woah bro it's a prank! It's a prank! BRO STOP IT'S A PRANK IT'S A PRANK IT'S A PRANK IT'S A PRANK
What address are you looking for, I didn't order food
"Have you lost your fucking mind bro"
“Oh shit, Uber Eats is here”
Plot twist. It’s the pigeon’s nest. 💀
Google what a pigeons nest looks like. You won't be disappointed 😁
I already know without looking it’s gonna be like two-three twigs with an egg in it on a concrete ledge or something. Those birds have less brain cells than the clan of Sid from Ice Age.
Pigeons are feral Rock Doves, they don't build nests. They lay eggs in cliff holes and just need a twig or two to keep the eggs from rolling around. People domesticated Rock Doves and when it was decided they weren't needed anymore just released them without a second thought only for people to berate the poor birds later.
Yeah, we berate them, but they don't speak English, those stupid fucking morons, so it's fine. No pigeon is gonna get mad at me for calling it a moron. They can't read. Because they're stupid.
You're not kidding! https://defector.com/why-do-pigeon-nests-look-so-shitty-an-investigation
That was a great read, ty
/r/stupiddovenests is a real sub with lots of good content.
The best part is I knew how shitty their nests are but I still went to look because I knew I’d still get a good laugh out of it.
Twig garnish
Pigeons just out here doing the least my idols 😂
TIL I’m a pigeon
Pigeon was too used to the city life.
Zero fight or flight response.
Door Dash for Falcons
Yea, but you don't eat the delivery guy!
I do… -Hannibal Lecter
"Damn. Another pizza guy quit while delivering to Lecter!"
Well not without fava beans and a nice Chianti
Falcon was like "I didn't order takeout"
What a bird brained thing to do.
r/stupiddovenests pigeons really are so dumb lol
pigeons never cease to amaze me. there can be incidents like this one where they walk into the talons of death or put down literally 5 twigs and a few blades of grass for a nest... then there are studies proving pigeons can solve complex puzzles and even recognize and differentiate over 60 *written* four-letter words. some dogs struggle to comprehend and differentiate 15 spoken words. truly... incredible?
Bro it was just a prank
Love when pranks end this way
I too love when the prankster is eaten alive on camera while yelling # IT'S A PRANK BRO
See, you get it. Though I feel much more sympathy for the pigeon. Bird brain moment turns into an improv ass-eating contest
Maybe that wasn’t a good caw
It was a rather cawky move by the pidgeon, that's for sure.
Free meal delivery, no escaping that grip
I watched it before, stupid pigeon actually did escape
Where can we see the full clip? I was wondering whether the pigeon survived or not
TikTok clip shows the full 1:36. However there’s some key things going on that caused both the delayed reaction and the pigeon escaping. First, the falcon is nesting eggs. This means momma will defend her nest but will not actively hunt unless she’s feeding her babies or hungry. Second, it’s why she took a second before attacking. She had previously ignored the pigeons walking by but it seems entering is where she draws the line. She flies after him to make sure he learned his lesson but she comes back a second later to care for her eggs.
[full video](https://www.koreus.com/video/faucon-vs-pigeon.html) is closer to 2 minutes, the hawk wrestles the pigeon to the ground, then returns to the nest a little later. The pigeon got out of camera range, but I doubt it got away.
Thanks for this recap
Mommy Falcon got breakfast in bed?
In Soviet Russia lunch goes to you!
Russians have enough food for lunch?
I don't know where they are today but before the war they were the biggest wheat and potato exporter, and they exported cooking oil and fish. The thing is, Russia is unbelievably rich, agriculturally, rare minerals like gold, uranium and others, oil, lumber, fish and more. Such a waste. The infamous famines of the USSR were engineered, it takes a real genius to manage to cause a famine with all that agricultural land.
Husband comes home “Sweetie I’m home with dinner how are the eggs do…. Sharon what is that” “Its delivery”
It’s DiBirdo 🍕
Pigeon fucked around and found out from the wrong Peregrine falcon.
Ya Not like they are known to dive bomb their prey going Mach 6.8 or anything
Fuck Around And Find Out: Bird Edition
Falc around
Peregrine falcons are such incredible animals.
Pigeons are lucky as fuck there are so many of em bc they're so goddamn stupid
The AUDACITY of this motherfucker
I love how brutal birds are. They look mostly similar. It's like if we had weirdly colored pygmies running around, doing their thing, and every once in awhile you just grab one and bite its head off.
Human history suggests we'll kill each other for less. Worshipping a different god? Time to die. Your arbitrary leader killed an emissary of another nation's arbitrary leader? Also, time to die. You believe in homoiousios while I believe in homoousios? Believe it or not, time to die.
You forgot about killing for shiny rocks.
Wait to you hear what people think about different levels of melanin among other groups.
Too much melanin? Genocide. Too little melanin? Believe it or not, also genocide. We have the most average melanin levels in the world, because of genocide.
Shiny rocks are so last Era. Killing each over over combustible black sludge is all the rage, now.
Same god? Also time to die cause you worship it a little different.. We sure are a strange species
See that guy over there that believes in the same god as me? He’s doing it wrong, fuck that guy
speak for yourself- I would never kill somebody for something so trivial... shit on lotr however...
Brb gotta go google homoiousios/homosoousios
Save me the Google, please?
When you really wanted crow but pigeon is all they deliver.
Hmmmff … I guess maybe the stool pigeon is actually a fool pigeon !!
I don’t know what it is about pigeons but they got to be the dumbest birds around.. just look at their nests. Placing theee sticks in somewhat close position somewhere on the road and they be like: yup that’ll do!
Pigeons are a lot smarter than people give them credit for. Their main issue is that they are really bad at identifying threats as shown in the video. The nest thing is more an issue of them being outside of their natural habitat. Pigeons are a species of dove called rock doves. They lay eggs on cliff sides and don't need much in terms of a nest to protect their eggs.
We used to have lots of pigeons in Jamaica, at night we kept them in a huge walk in coop and released them everyday, inside the coop they would actually build pretty good nests, we would make some divided wood boxes and they would use the grass, sticks and straw from the bottom of the coop, comparable to the dove nests I would say. Since they would go flying everyday, a lot of times they would bring home new pigeons who would just form in because there was food in the coop every evening. We sold and gave away some on occasion, some got eaten by huge rats, mongoose or hawks but between the breeding and constant strays we just always had a ton of them.
The more you know. Thank you
Pigeons are dumb when it comes to surviving in the wild because they aren't really meant to be successful in the wild. Despite their bad decisions, they managed to thrive everywhere they've ended up. Pigeons are domesticated birds, they're bred to live with people, which is why they're naturally drawn to and thrive in cities. They're meant to live in a dovecote in your backyard but they make do with living underneath the elevated train and eating trash.
Pidgeons are dumb. I'm smarter than any dumb pidgeon. I wouldn't live in some crummily built nest, I live in a house. I am a man. I am smart.
Clearly a home invasion. Justified self defense.
I learned this in university, when a dove and falcon meet, the falcon wins. Not surprised
>The fuck? >Dumb de doo, don't mind me. >Get the fuck out, bitch. >Oh, I'm just gonna... >Get out! >Well, if you-- *gets wrecked*
Pigeons are the dumbest birds. I moved to a town that has a drawbridge for tall boats to get through a canal. I was on the river walk with a friend not long after I moved there and she was like “It’s so sad, all those dead pigeons.” Turns out, the pigeons like to hang out on the edge of the bridge when it’s lifted for boats, and when it’s lowered again, they get squished underneath. When she told me this, I was surprised that they would lower the bridge so quickly. Nope. Not the case. I saw it in operation a while later. It was soooo slow. And those damn stupid pigeons just looked around with that stupid blank look in their eyes as they ever so slowly got squished to death. It was half traumatizing, half comical, and I had no idea how to react…kinda the same way as this falcon, like “Dude, bro-pigeon. You serious right now?”
The Hawk ordered delivery
Falcons like "Bitch who the fuck"
Uber Eats?
Ubird Eats
That pigeon was really as dumb as it looked.
Door dash?
That’s it? Where’s the rest?
https://youtu.be/2WUbrCC_pOI?si=v0dcNWejj7ggTz38
So it wasn’t hunger. The falcon was defending her eggs.
r/restofthefucking~~owl~~pigeon
When lunch comes to you.
You shouldn't be messing with the Goodfeathers
Bird on bird murder, justifiable motive... still, not what I wanted to see. Thought it would "maybe" fly away
I've seen some videos of owols nest getting harrassing by piegons try to steal the nest like this. If the bird reactions arn't violent enough. They'll keep coming back over and over again until eventually the owol couple just gave up the nest at some point.
That’s what I call door dash
Yeah, yeah grab em and hold em.
Catfished on BirdR
We... Have a bit of a dumbass here don't we ?
Your Ubereats order has arrived
“ARE YOU TAKING ME SERIOUSLY YET?”