we see pigeons everywhere why don't we ever see baby pigeons?

Answer 1

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.


Basically by the time they leave the nest they are near fully grown, you can spot them out as they usually stick close to their mother and have fluffier feathers :)

Answer 2

The common street pigeon builds a nest like your normal bird. But pigeons, living up to the urbanologists' nickname "flying rats," are both a little sloppier and a little more devious than the average avian; they construct small, flimsy nests, barely large enough to hold Mother Pigeon's usual two eggs, in cornices and other out-of-the-way places.

While the eggs incubate (for about two weeks) the nest is kept constantly covered--by the male during the day, and by the female on the night shift. Once the little suckers hatch, they spend another two weeks in the nest feeding off a protein substance called "pigeon's milk" secreted from the crop of the adult (both sexes, interestingly). When they're all growed up and flapping, they hit the road.

OR

The blunt truth is this: the pigeons you see all over the city are the baby pigeons. The adult has a wingspan of 8-12 feet. When they reach adulthood they fly to remote mountain fastnesses and live off the occasional tourist. I do not, however, subscribe to the theory that the adults will one day return en masse to wreak vengeance on us a la The Birds.

Answer 3

baby pigeons do not leave the nest until they can fly- when they can fly, they are only slightly smaller than the parents, so if you see one that looks like a runty pigeon-probably a baby. Also, they only have 1 baby at a time- they will usually kill the other if they lay 2, which is probably why you never see a nest of chirping pigeons.

Answer 4

pigeons are parents non pareil. They lay only two eggs at a time, and spoil those babies shamefully. "The parents will feed the babies until they're totally feathered out," Heppner reported proudly. "By the time they leave the nest, they'll be about the same size as the adults. You know when people eat squab, that's when they take 'em -- when they're nice and plump." Squab, for the culinarily challenged, being baby pigeon.

Answer 5

I think because there are mostly in the nest. I saw a family of pigeions the other summer, the baby pigeon is cute

Answer 6

Baby birds grow fast so you may be looking at baby pigeons in the group and not realize it.

Answer 7

you do but you just dont know it
the small babies stay in the nests ,when they are big enough to fly they are almost the same size as the adults ,but skinnier

Answer 8

Because they're in class somewhere being taught how to "dump" all over everything.

Answer 9

because they cant fly yet and are still in the nest???? duuuhhhh its like asking why dont i see babies driving cars

Answer 10

climb on the tree. when babies go to first flight they aren't little anymore