has anyone ever seen a baby pigeon? this has caused sleepless nights for years!?

Answer 1

Yes, you've known something is not quite right for years. Now...

You must decide.

Do you take the red pill, or the blue pill?

Find out the truth behind the baby pigeons, once and for all.

Answer 2

We get this question periodically. Here's the answer:

Pigeons are altricial birds, i.e., they stay in the nest until they can fly. Pigeon young are hatched at 18 days. They stay in the nest till they are about 30-35 days old. When they fly for the first time, you can often see them in flocks among the adults if you know what to look for. Young pigeons have little if any iridescence on the neck. They still often squeal when they chase their parents or other adult trying to con them into feeding them. Their feathers are a bit duller than the adults and their tail feathers often have a slight point to them - where the down was attached.

Pigeon young almost double their weight each day in the nest and pigeon parents feed them well. In fact, for about the first ten days, they actually feed them a "crop milk". It's not really milk as we think of in mammals -- it looks more like a cottage cheese they produce - but it is a high energy food and the youngsters (squeakers) grow fast and well on it. About 7-10 days into the nest period after hatch, the adults begin to add grain, seeds, whatever, to the food that they are giving the youngsters.

There are a lot of young pigeons out there at certain times of year and part of the fun of looking at a flock is to recognize which are young and which are adults.

If you want to find out more, you might want to also check a few sites like:

http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/pigeongenetics/index.html

http://www.pigeon.org

BTW - Here's a couple of pics of young pigeons in the nest. The first is one of pair of birds about 10 days old and the second is of one about 21 days old (about a week and a half before it would fledge)

http://www.fbipigeons.com/baby_pigeon.htm

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45 years raising pigeons

Answer 3

No, but we had a male dove for about 8 years that a friend stole out of it's nest before it could fly. He was a very cool bird. I'd say pigeons and doves are similar!

Answer 4

I've raised doves, and they're of the same family. Ugly little hatchlings. Fat and flabby with a few strands of long yellow 'hair,' and yet they have some charm because they're helpless trusting babies.

Have you been watching Harry and the Hendersons? "Have you ever seen a baby pigeon?" "No." "Neither have I, but I suspect they exist."

Answer 5

A sand blaster and painter I knew recommended me that pigeons had their nests intense indoors this form of bridges. He worked up and down the Mississippi River helping do the maintenance on the bridges. So, of direction pigeons create eyries for nesting applications.

Answer 6

Hundreds of them ugly little beasts. I used to raise pigeons. why are you sleepless?

Answer 7

Found a dead one the other day, obviously fell from the nest, wasn't a pretty sight. Hopefully you'll get a good nights sleep now.

Answer 8

hi i love pigeons,
they love me,
i spent time going outside every morning and afternoon and feeding them where i lived, and sat on a bench, and after ablut six months, they came to me, sit in my lap
and one special one (splotch) I named her because she had a white splotch on her head like soomeone spilled paint.

anyway, sorry i got side tracked,
pigeons, when they have the babies, keep them in the nest and stay with them until they are adult..
so there it is,

Answer 9

I tried to save one that had fallen out of the nest very oung. They are very ugly, grey with no feathers and its eyes were swollen. Shame- it didn't make it :(

Answer 10

Sue, they are really ugly, I found one once, I had no idea what it was, thought it was a baby dinosaur!! They are not preety!