Coming out of college today (in the north east of England) i was gazing round and saw a um…mutilated carcass of a pigeon hung by its neck from a tree branch high up, i thought it was odd, so i was wondering if anyone knows what caused it, the only other animals i’ve seen in this wooded bit are acouple of squirrells, and some ravens so i reckon either:
The pigeon fell out of the sky and impaled itself
It was suicidal and wanted to end it all
The squirrell mafia found it and hung it in public as an example
A cat killed it and hung it there for later (leopards do this right?)
i thought about that but dont they kill insects and not fully grown pigeons? it’d be a hell of a bird to carry and hang a pigeon…unless there’s some eagle thing i havent seen round here
well it was in the college grounds, but it was pretty high up in the thin branchy bits, and the tree can be seen from pretty much every window on the side of the building that faces it…
Could it have hooked itself up and then been eaten by other creatures after? I have seen lorrikeets get entangle ta foot in a branch and die from not being able to get away.
Could it have been attacked by a hawk or eagle which failed to make a clean kill? Possibly it half-dodged the attack and, wounded, fell out of the air onto the tree?
