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We have what looks like a flightless pigeon (well it's certainly a pigeon, it just looks like it's flightless :p) waddling around the garden periodically and sitting under the hedge for prolonged periods.
Any ideas what to do about it? Don't like the idea of just leaving it to die slowly due to lack of food or be half eaten by one of the neighbourhood cats :(
I saw MasterChef yesterday and one of the starters was pan fried pigeon with wild mushrooms. Looked fantastic!
I can't really help but I can offer pigeon related mirth:
http://www.explosm.net/comics/1391/
It's probably tired and shagged out after a particularly long squawk.
It's a pigeon, not a parrot :p ;)
Knipples
07-09-2008, 13:31
We had one in our garden on Tuesday, turned out to be a ickle babber one. Its Mummy or Daddy came down and shouted at it a bit and he went and flapped away in the end.
It's a pigeon, not a parrot :p ;)
A Norwegian Blue pigeon?
Well we tried to give it some bread earlier and it's acting very oddly. Doesn't move away as you come up to it and showed no interest in eating the bread. At one point it did manage to low-level fly to the other corner of the garden so it's obviously capable of flight. Maybe just a bit poorly or sommat?
Take it to the vet.
Not sure where it is?
Just wing it then!
Has it got a ring on it's leg? If so it's probably a racing pigeon gone a bit off course and is knackered. It'll stay put until it's got some energy again. Get it some seed if you can and feed him. We used to get a lot ot the stables, they'd hang around, get fed, recharge and off they'd go when they were ready.
Or, it could be about to peg it.
Pigeon is lovely. I had it in Estonia with some kind of saffron sauce. Nom!
Take it to the vet.
Not sure where it is?
Just wing it then!
It's probably tired and shagged out after a particularly long squawk.
hahah both of those just made me laugh far more than was probably worth :D
Pigeon is lovely. I had it in Estonia with some kind of saffron sauce. Nom!
I tried some Pigeon in Honkkong at a s****y restaurant, it was miced and came in a dressed cup of lettuce
I thought it was quite nice but the friends I was with were nearly chucking up ;D
it was miced
:eek:
Pidgeon and mice?
:puke:
Still there :(
Gawd knows how it's survived with the number of cats around. It just sits under a hedge or under the table, totally motionless. Looks like a young-un, so might have fallen from a nest and injured itself or just not fully capable of flight yet. GF is putting water and some moistened bread out for it but really don't know what to do about it.
Don't really want to leave the poor thing sitting there waiting for one of the cats to take it but I doubt the vets or any of the rescue places are going to be interested in a "mere" pidgeon :(
Still there :(
Gawd knows how it's survived with the number of cats around. It just sits under a hedge or under the table, totally motionless. Looks like a young-un, so might have fallen from a nest and injured itself or just not fully capable of flight yet. GF is putting water and some moistened bread out for it but really don't know what to do about it.
Don't really want to leave the poor thing sitting there waiting for one of the cats to take it but I doubt the vets or any of the rescue places are going to be interested in a "mere" pidgeon :(
You'd be surprised! We've taken a pigeon to a rescue center before and they took it! Give your local one a call and ask them whether you could bring it in or what you should do :)
Metalface Mark
09-09-2008, 09:38
The pigeon you eat isnt the same pigeon as you find on the street, but the thought of it puts a lot of people off eating it, i know it puts me off.
Anyway, perhaps the pigeon has just discovered the joys of walking, maybe it didnt know it could do it? Its gotta be easier than flying, plus its getting cold, think of the windchill.
The pigeon is probably an advancement between this and the next evolution link, so id leave it well alone and let nature take its course.
You'd be surprised! We've taken a pigeon to a rescue center before and they took it! Give your local one a call and ask them whether you could bring it in or what you should do :)
Wouldn't even know where my local one is (Brum).
Wouldn't even know where my local one is (Brum).
Give the RSPCA a call and ask them where to go/what to do... : 0300 1234 555
:)
They will just kill it by the way. It's the same as if you reported an injured rat.They aren't going to waste time and resources on vermin.
We had a pidgeon in our garden that had a broken leg, was really sad as it couldn't really move around much :( Thankfully it's healed now, but it does walk funny so I try and keep a watch out for it. Greedy beggers they are though.
Awww poor pigeon :(
I found an injured pigeon the other week. It was cowered under a hedge as I was walking home form the park. I felt really sorry for it as it looked really sad all huddled up under the hedge.
I phoned home to try and get someone to come with a box so we could take it somewhere, but they wouldnt because they said there was no where you can take an injured pigeon. I argued for ages but they still siad no :(.
Then they asked if it had moved in all the time I was stood next to it on the phone.
I realised it hadnt, so I asked "do pigeons blink?"
Then I saw the trail of feathers from the road to the hedge.
It turned out it was more injured than I thought, and was more like dead.
oops.
My bro in law is an RSPCA inspector and I used to go out on calls with him years back. He got a call to a poorly pigeon once, so off we trundled, found the family who called, had a chat with them, went in their back garden, picked up pigeon and was walking back to the van where B-i-L necked it (wrung its neck) as he walked.
Next thing, the mum is calling up the driveway...can we wait a sec while the little boy said goodbye to the pigeon as he had got a bit attached to it over the past couple of days. :shocked:
A carefully placed finger under its head and a dark night saved much hysteria. Hehe got some right funny stories from going out with him, which also account for why I never give the RSPCA money,
We had a similar incident once, an RTA dog had been brought in (dead) so we shoved it in the freezer. About 4 hours later the family was found and wanted to see the dog :/ Apparently the dog had frozen with it's tongue lolling out and they had to try and shove a frozen tongue back into this poor dogs mouth to make it look respecatble :/
:confused:
But but but...
:confused:
:(
*edit* Speaking of vermin, why can't we have a similar routine to when we find ASBO'd kids out on the streets drunk and being a pain in the toosch rather than escorting them home to their oh-so-caring families and waving a finger at them?!?
Yeah my main worry is that any type of rescue place will just kill it, although at least it'd go quicker than if a cat got hold of it. Already called the RSPCA, they just said to feed/water it if we wanted to and it'd either fly off eventually or a cat would get it - nothing else we can do.
It's probably just young and confused and probably just needs an enclosed place it can survive until it's old/well enough to fend for itself. Just can't bear seeing the poor thing sitting in the garden day after day whilst dreading a cat getting hold of it :(
Pheebs, you have a point.
get it some seed. Bread isn't good for birds as it swells so much.
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