Listen, you pigeon bitch!

[Intergalactic_Gladiator]

Someone needs to make Listen, You Pigeon Bitch a band name, stat.

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=857932

[Rhiannon8404]

Best thing that ever happened to our neighborhood was the crows moving in.

We used to have pigeons everywhere…nesting in the eaves, tops of chimneys, walking slowly down the middle of the road in front of your car, making their stupid cooing sounds all. the. time. Now we have nice polite crows. They hop out of the street before you even get to them; they nest in the trees like proper birds; the caw from time to time, but not every damn minute.

I hate pigeons. I love crows.

[Rhiannon8404]

@carnivorousplant

Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) quit feeding zombies-er, pigeons, because hawks would take them right in front of the picture window.

I would pay to see that.

[carnivorousplant]

@Rhiannon8404

I would pay to see that.

Bodies were bouncing off the glass.
Oh, the humanity!

[teela_brown]

@Rhiannon8404

Best thing that ever happened to our neighborhood was the crows moving in.

We used to have pigeons everywhere…nesting in the eaves, tops of chimneys, walking slowly down the middle of the road in front of your car, making their stupid cooing sounds all. the. time. Now we have nice polite crows. They hop out of the street before you even get to them; they nest in the trees like proper birds; the caw from time to time, but not every damn minute.

I hate pigeons. I love crows.

You know, now that you mention it, I haven’t seen any pigeons in our neighborhood for a long time. Nor any robins or mockingbirds, which used to be plentiful. But we do have lots of crows. So the conclusion that we draw is that crows are eating the eggs and nestlings of the other birds.

Also, someone dug up this thirteen year old thread to tell me that pigeons are actually brilliant during wartime? If they’re so smart, why can’t they organize with their robin and mockingbird allies and declare WWIII on the crows and drive them out?

[Rhiannon8404]

@teela_brown

You know, now that you mention it, I haven’t seen any pigeons in our neighborhood for a long time. Nor any robins or mockingbirds, which used to be plentiful. But we do have lots of crows. So the conclusion that we draw is that crows are eating the eggs and nestlings of the other birds.

Also, someone dug up this thirteen year old thread to tell me that pigeons are actually brilliant during wartime? If they’re so smart, why can’t they organize with their robin and mockingbird allies and declare WWIII on the crows and drive them out?

Interesting. We still have Magpies, Purple Martins, Scrub jays, and a variety of other birds living in/around our crows…just no more pigeons.

[snfaulkner]

@Rhiannon8404

Best thing that ever happened to our neighborhood was the crows moving in.

We used to have pigeons everywhere…nesting in the eaves, tops of chimneys, walking slowly down the middle of the road in front of your car, making their stupid cooing sounds all. the. time. Now we have nice polite crows. They hop out of the street before you even get to them; they nest in the trees like proper birds; the caw from time to time, but not every damn minute.

I hate pigeons. I love crows.

Crows make that creepy clicky/croaky sound that sounds like The Predator.