Re: Any birders here?
vickiebee <[email protected]>
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Citizen Smith wrote: > Sn!pe wrote: >> >> Citizen Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Recently the collared doves in my garden have started duffing up >>> the wood pigeons that are quite a lot larger. Anyone know why >>> they do that? >> >> Competion for resources? > > I think there's more to it. I've been feeding the birds and the seed > that falls gets gobbled up by the ones below. There's normally > plenty to go round. Now a wood pigeon can land on my lawn and start > pecking at the grass and out of nowhere a collared dove will swoop > down shrieking and attack the poor pigeon. [..] Maybe it's because the Eurasian Collared-Dove's species name, decaocto, comes from Greek mythology. Decaocto was a servant girl turned into a dove by the gods to escape her terrible treatment; that's why the dove has such a mournful cry. They could still be pissed and vengeful. v -- https://www.thefarside.com/