# Here's a video of me feeding pigeons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2023, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045 "2023-10-03T08:04:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/21 "2023-10-04T06:35:20Z")
While I am sure this is fun [bread is bad to feed to birds](https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/how-you-can-help-birds/feeding-birds/safe-food-for-birds/household-scraps-for-birds/#:~:text=Bread%20does%20not%20contain%20the,nutritional%20value%20is%20relatively%20low.). It fills them up but lacks the nutrition they need. Also, pigeons are a [real pest in most big cities](https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/pests-or-pets-a-history-of-how-pigeons-took-over-the-windy-city-and-what-organizations-are-doing-about-it/). Given that…maybe feed them as much bread as you can. ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/22 "2023-10-04T06:39:48Z")
puzzlegal, thanks for letting me know. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/23 "2023-10-04T06:41:25Z")
It’s a cute video. I love a little pigeon. They sweet thangs. ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/24 "2023-10-04T06:46:32Z")
CalMeacham, lol I had no idea a song like that existed. ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/25 "2023-10-04T06:52:08Z")
If that’s common practice in Iran, then he must’ve thought he struck gold seeing all the pigeons in the states. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/26 "2023-10-04T06:56:17Z")
That’s interesting. 🤔 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/27 "2023-10-04T07:09:59Z")
Ike\_Witt, that’s interesting. It’s unfair that the city is taking the joy away from people who likes to spend some time feeding innocent birds. ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/28 "2023-10-04T07:14:28Z")
burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt, lol I’ve been in that situation a few times. ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/29 "2023-10-04T07:16:49Z")
Jasmine, I had no idea either 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/30 "2023-10-04T07:21:20Z")
Whack-a-Mole, I mostly feed them bird seeds now. I can understand how a lot of people will see them as pests, but when I see a lot of pigeons hanging out somewhere, I see it as an opportunity to make a video with them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/31 "2023-10-04T11:03:38Z")
I understand the joy, and it seems that you really like them. It won’t upset you if I eat one? I won’t mention it again just in case. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/32 "2023-10-04T12:04:58Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > While I am sure this is fun [bread is bad to feed to birds](https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/how-you-can-help-birds/feeding-birds/safe-food-for-birds/household-scraps-for-birds/#:~:text=Bread%20does%20not%20contain%20the,nutritional%20value%20is%20relatively%20low.). It fills them up but lacks the nutrition they need. Boy, that’s going to bum out my mother. The highlight of her morning is feeding the birds in our backyard. It’s the highlight for the birds, too. They line up in anticipation. If she’s late, they’ll start signalling their annoyance. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/33 "2023-10-04T12:06:19Z")
> [@chrisjourney](#): > > lol I had no idea a song like that existed. When I was in grad school, my advisor made a present to me of a cassette dubbed from his Tom Lehrer albums. I put it in my Walkman, and that was the first song I heard. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/34 "2023-10-04T13:56:49Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Boy, that’s going to bum out my mother. The highlight of her morning is feeding the birds in our backyard. We go through 50 pounds of sunflower seed, 50 pounds of raw peanuts, and 20 pounds of thistle seed each week. You can feed bread in addition to other offerings, and you can put peanut butter on bread if you want to use up bread. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/35 "2023-10-04T14:20:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It’s a cute video. I love a little pigeon. They sweet thangs. They’re disease-ridden aerial rats worthy only of wholesale extermination. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/36 "2023-10-04T14:21:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > We go through 50 pounds of sunflower seed, 50 pounds of raw peanuts, and 20 pounds of thistle seed each week. > > You can feed bread in addition to other offerings, and you can put peanut butter on bread if you want to use up bread. That won’t work for her. There’s no way she’d spend money on feeding the birds. Torn-up stale bread is essentially “free”. Putting peanut butter on it requires both buying peanut butter and then going to the trouble of spreading it on the bread. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/37 "2023-10-04T14:31:34Z")
Well, if she is feeding just a few pieces of stale bread and the birds are also foraging, the bread will not have a huge impact. There used to be an “old baked goods” store that sold expired or damaged bread, hohos, etc. I knew a woman who would fill her car’s trunk and backseat, then have her handyman take the hohos to a bear feeder and the bread to ducks/birds/rats/etc at a lake in her yard. That could be harmful. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/38 "2023-10-04T14:34:17Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > They’re disease-ridden aerial rats worthy only of wholesale extermination. A buddy of minje has been a pigeon fancier for over 50 years. He has Birmingham Rollers and has competed nationally and internationally. A few years ago he won it all. He once paid $300 for a cock to use for breeding. He now trains white pigeons (“doves”) to home to his coop. He does white dove releases for funerals and makes a decent amount of money doing it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/39 "2023-10-04T14:37:04Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Well, if she is feeding just a few pieces of stale bread and the birds are also foraging, the bread will not have a huge impact. Well, it’s more than “a few pieces”. You could live off my mom’s stash of stale bread. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045/40 "2023-10-04T15:00:23Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > He now trains white pigeons (“doves”) to home to his coop. He does white dove releases for funerals and makes a decent amount of money doing it. There’s a big difference between pet ferrets and feral Norway rats. The same applies to pigeon / dove fanciers versus feral pigeon populations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-video-of-me-feeding-pigeons/991045.md?page=3)