wheres all the baby pigeons??

Question

ive never seeing a baby pigeon, how come??

Answer 1

From http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon970905/skinnyon.html

"First of all, unlike dippy little English sparrows or robins, pigeons hide their nests.
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Heppner said that 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.
Secondly, 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.


And the doting parents don't feed these butter-balls your typical bird baby-food.
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These birdlets get something called "pigeon milk," and the faint-of-stomach may not wish to explore this paragraph further. Both parents manufacture in their crop, or throat, a rich, fatty "milk" that looks, Heppner says, much like yellow cottage cheese. They ralph this delicacy up and expel it into the throats of their darlings. "You can see this white stuff glowing in the crops of the squabs," Heppner says. "They're just full of it."
After eight or 10 days of this ambrosial diet, the parents begin mixing in solid food and water. "They'll eat heavily, then drink a lot of water to easily chuck up the grain," Heppner enthuses, and offering between these fascinating facts to send me photographs of fancy pigeons. "And did you know pigeons drink like horses? Hens will lift their heads up to swallow. But pigeons put their head down and just take a long draught."

And do the parents flinch at all this work, this cheese-making, this grain-chucking, this drinking-like-a-horse? Of course not. "If all's going along well with the first nest, they'll build another, right near by, and lay the next batch," Heppner says. "They'll take turns sitting on the next set, while the other feeds up the squabs." And they'll do that four to six times a season. So, not only are there baby pigeons, there are baby-pigeon assembly lines.

And when the fledglings do finally leave the nest, Heppner says, their plumage and size are so similar to those of the flock they hang around with that only the practiced pigeonophile would be able to pick out the babies.


Care to practice finding the youngsters? Look for them in the spring and summer.
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They may have stray strands of down poking through their feathers.

They may retain a trace of the "lip" around their beak that gives the parents a wider ralphing target.

Their heads may be narrower.

They may be shy. "They're more timid," Heppner explains. "They won't be professional in going after the best food."

Answer 2

till some weeks in the past there became a pigeon nest on a intense window ledge the place I artwork, overlooking the automobile park. each time I went previous, one pigeon (parent) could be keeping safeguard on the ledge, staring on the different pigeon discern who became interior the automobile park searching for nutrition. It became as though one became making particular the different became ok. Then sooner or later, I heard chirping and observed that the infants were born. They have been the tiniest cutest little issues. : ) It became the 1st time I had seen toddler pigeons and that they appeared sooo lovable - tiny weeny mini pigeons! every day they have been slightly larger and somewhat extra energetic on the ledge and the father and mom have been continuously there. Then sooner or later I exceeded and that that they had all long previous which contain the father and mom. No-you will have reached them and that they weren't on the floor, so i assume they should have flown the nest. I neglected seeing them, I have been given fairly linked! somebody stated they stay interior the nest till they are waiting to fly and thanks to this we don't often see them.

Answer 3

Well my father has been racing pigeons for 20 years and basically their big breeding season is in spring, and they keep their nests hidden from predators, hawks LOVE eating pigeons, ( my dad has had to shoot a few hawks )

Answer 4

They're at first in the nest, then they turn into pigeons 3/4 the size of thier mom and dad, then they turn into juveniles and learn to fly, then they fly away and become adults. :)

Answer 5

you wont see any chicks in winter as they have all grown up and left the nest,
in general you wont see pigeon chicks anyway as they stay in the nest till they are grown up enough to fly, and the fledglings look nearly identical to the fully grown adults so it would be hard to tell them apart, so you have prob seen some young pigeons without realizing it.

Answer 6

they dont leave the nest until the are almost as large as the parents, so what you think its an adult bird may be a "baby", but the actual baby baby birds are still in the nest, which are will hidden unlike other bird species.

Answer 7

They stay well hidden in their nests until they are ready to take flight - at which time they look very similar to adults.

Answer 8

I have but you have to look in the nest. They're not usually out walking about.

Answer 9

Becuase they are in there nests as it is winter and they can't fly

Answer 10

they are hiden from the weather, but believe me you don't want to see thier chicks, they are real ugly