Why do we never see baby pigeons?

Question

While relaxing with a cup of tea and a biscuit, I pondered this very question, is there a pigeon assembly line somewhere which just rolls them out and sends them on their way? lol

Answer 1

First of all, unlike dippy little English sparrows or robins, pigeons hide their nests.
Secondly, pigeons are parents non pareil. They lay only two eggs at a time, and spoil those babies shamefully.
And the doting parents don't feed these butter-balls your typical bird baby-food.

Back when they emerged in Asia (evidently, they were nature-living animals, once), pigeons were cliff-dwellers. So now they balance their messy nests of sticks inside the guts of bridges, or atop tall buildings, or on top of your air conditioner.

Answer 2

We have a small flock of homing pigeons, so I've seen plenty of baby pigeons (not exactly what I'd call pretty, but cute in their own way...)

I'm pretty sure wild pigeons hide tehir nests in out of the way places. baby pigeons who leave the nest before they look adult and can do things like fly and hunt for food normally don't survive very long. When they do some out, they're just a little smaller then their adult counterparts.

Do you see many other types of baby birds?

Answer 3

infant pigeons quite improve quick and the purely way you may tell is with the help of their begging for nutrition moves. they offer the impact of being finished grown yet nonetheless are little ones. at the same time as in a coop they bypass begging each of the time and evidently humorous to work out an entire grown poultry being fed with the aid of numerous dad and mom who cant keep their young ones immediately.After a at the same time as the little ones get bopped on the proper and informed to get their own nutrition at the same time as the dad and mom are drained of their begging. have self belief me the wild infant pigeons are there. you purely do not comprehend them as little ones.

Answer 4

Funny - I thought the same til I spotted 2 perched in a window box on a balcony. They're ugly.

Answer 5

Are they not still in their shells. Sometimes you notice that some of the pigeons are smaller than others, possibly the bigger pigeons babies.

Answer 6

we do but they are adult size by the time they leave the nest. I asked this years ago to a mate who worked upstairs in a shop and could see into the nests that were just below his window

Answer 7

I never see baby morning doves either. I see the adult 2 together a lot but no babys at the feeders

Answer 8

lol i saw one nest in a tree outside my house and i can give you positive identification of a baby pigeon, he wouldnt leave the area and perched on my hedge for a while.

Answer 9

An old, old question. They are kept until almost adulthood, by their parents. They are always hidden for fear of predators. We do see them. They are a culinary delicacy known as squab.

Answer 10

This question has been asked several times before