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How to use pigeons in a sentence

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It was not smugglers, but fruit pigeons who scattered the unsoaked seeds on other islands.
Some pigeons and doves, including tropical fruit doves, are exclusively frugivorous, fruit-eating.
Mr Norquoy hopes to acquire new brood stock from among the 24,000 pigeons on display.
Smaller birds such as pigeons, thrushes, jackdaws, robins and sparrows would also have been seen on a regular basis.
Like homing pigeons, some types of amphibious snakes have an unstoppable urge to return home.
The birds are vermin just like pigeons are, in the same sense that weeds are weeds if they are growing in an undesirable, inappropriate place.
There are issues of public safety concerning the pub in its current state and it is attracting vermin such as pigeons.
Nine of the 11 patients with chronic BFL disease raised budgerigars, and the remaining 2 patients bred pigeons.
The show should only consist of budgerigars, canaries, zebra finches, Bengalese finches, pigeons and captive bred British birds.
Frounce is caused by a protozoan called Trichomonas which is frequently present in the crops of pigeons.
The former also produce the disease known as canker in pigeons, or frounce in birds of prey, and are treated with anti-protozoal drugs.
Everyone who has ever been to the city's squares or parks will remember the lovely and docile pigeons.
But the more evident marauder is pigeons, thanks to the sandwich crusts left by lunchers and the feed spread by misguided bird fanciers.
Before any of Mrs. Cryer's adherents is tempted to calumniate, I am not a hunting man although I am a countryman and do shoot clay pigeons.
How misguided can you be to choose to eat your lunch in a place that has always been noted for pigeons?
Other modern representatives include the crowned pigeons of New Guinea and the tooth-billed pigeon of Samoa.
We who hunted rabbits, hares, pigeons and pheasants as part of our wintry routine were certainly aware of the mad March hare days.
Aside from pigeons, chickadees, seagulls, and the occasional bluejay, we city-dwellers don't usually get to see a variety of bird species.
In homing pigeons, a bird is considered to have successfully homed when it returns to its home loft-a highly localized navigational goal.
Making these pigeons anosmic had essentially no effect on either the pigeons' orientation or homing.
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Also called a hemipode, it resembles a true quail in appearance and way of life but is more closely related to sandgrouse and pigeons.
Anyway, our Brendan decides to put the cat among the pigeons by means of this post slagging off the monarchy and right wing bloggers.
John Maynard Keynes put the cat among the pigeons when he said that Newton was not the first great scientist, but the last great magician.
The airport attracts corvids, rooks, crows, lapwings and wood pigeons among others.
In Bendigo, near where I live in north-central Victoria, there are now huge numbers of crested pigeons.
The New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer, used carrier pigeons to deliver photographic negatives.
Command and control through the use of fires, flags, trumpets, carrier pigeons, etc., continued to be a part of warfare for centuries.
Wild cats, stray dogs, pigeons, rats, and hooded crows were killed by the thousands to improve hygiene in the city.
They had domesticated geese and pigeons and a wide variety of wild birds like herons, pelicans, cranes and ducks.
Pheasants, wild pigeons and hazel grouses live in the woods, and are never disturbed at the sight of humans.
However, a quick wicket or two could set the cat among the pigeons and precipitate a collapse.
We have requested a presentation from the housing associations about the scale of the problem and I think that has set the cat among the pigeons.
Even if I did like crooks who are stool pigeons, I still wouldn't like you!
Prior to the two ladies feeding the pigeons, they had to go to open farmland each day to forage for food.
Whilst the fodies have attracted much conservation and research effort, the blue pigeons have not.
On his deathbed he ordered two pigeons, three steaks, a bottle of wine, a glass of champagne, two glasses of port and a glass of brandy.
The Emperor himself living in a wooden house, his exercise only flying a hawk at pigeons.
Though there was still a haze of darkness, he could hear the starting of the pigeons cooing.
I say pigeon cooing because Joseph also likes the pigeons and his pigeon won a race last weekend.
I could hear the pigeons cooing overhead, a constant cacophony of noise that filtered down from the eighth floor.
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Now, pigeons sit on his shoulders, and passing poets salute him with a flourish of the walking stick.
Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park.
For a long time your body lies there while the pigeons mill about, cooing to one another.
One day I labored in the basement kitchen plucking a hundred pigeons, burning the tougher feathers off with a hand-held torch.
It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roost.
At the end of the day, one has to admit that most would-be megastars, the pigeons in this behavioral con game, are complicit in their deception.
It also eats birds such as magpies and pigeons, rodents, wild boar and young deer.
So theft could not apply to pigeons that are flying in the air, but it may apply to pigeons in a dovecote.
Those old oriental boxes, top hats with pigeons and double-sided silk handkerchiefs won't do any more.
The college campus will have pigeons flying and carrying love letters and short messages.
Friesians and Jerseys will have to trample a lot of washing before they become as unpopular as York's pigeons.
A few seagulls circled, squawked at Joe, and two pigeons on the crane's jib watched him intently.
This will prevent intrusion by pigeons and other birds before the building is finally weatherproofed.
One example he gave was the leakage of radioactivity from Sellafield caused by pigeons.
A recent report of poisoned pigeons being found pegged out close to Peregrine eyries in Wales was almost certainly the work of pigeon fanciers.
I've seen sparrows, dirty pigeons, doves, screeching seagulls, nasty crows and the occasional hawk.
When he succeeded in waking us up, we had been completely incoherent, raving about caves and pigeons and dark unspeakable evil.
Fanciers are all aflutter after the first pigeons in Ireland were dope tested recently.
There have been four incidents involving racing pigeons at the airport since 2002, two involving planes landing and two taking off.
The largest of Washington's pigeons and doves, it is all gray, with a lighter gray, banded tail.
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Attacks by birds of prey on Scotland's flocks of racing pigeons are to be officially investigated for the first time.
Since the mid-1800s, the dodo has been classified as part of the family that includes pigeons and doves.
The circus boasts camels, zebras, llamas, dogs, pigeons and ducks, as well as clowns, jugglers, wire-walkers and trapeze artists.
I watched my big kit of pigeons fly over in a constantly changing formation.
I also see hornbills pass up small-fruited figs that would draw doves and pigeons in by the hundreds.
The woodlands behind the house provide the habitat for roe deer, pheasants, woodcock, and pigeons which form the basis for a small rough shoot.
At least they now have a building without all forms of rot and woodworm, and without pigeons in the roof and who knows what in the cellars!
The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
I saw a single coot and lots of wood pigeons perched in the dead trees surrounding the lagoon.
So the settlers looked to the land to provide for them, curlews, pigeons and other forest birds along with the occasional wild pig.
On a less frantic note, while we go to a rooftop in Rome, dozens of doves, pigeons, were released carrying messages of hope and peace.
However, in areas where rabbits are scarce, feral cats will prey largely on wild pigeons and native animals.
Its been estimated by some pigeon fanciers that there as many as 500 wild pigeons in the town centre.
Suspicions that new and undetectable drugs are being used have grown after samples from scores of racing pigeons in Belgium disappeared.
A student brass band played, rose petals were showered and pigeons were released as peace slogans rent the air.
Recently, global positioning systems have become small and light enough to be carried by pigeons.
She revealed that pigeons in certain town centre areas are being fed raw pieces of meat, pies and pasties, cakes, and full loaves of bread.
This diet mimics the composition of crop milk in white Carneaux pigeons, Columbia livia, and the diet of older squabs.
Mario plays Dean Martin in the kitchen, dancing around and rhapsodizing about pigeons in truffle.
The director, Whitman, was an experimental geneticist and spent years in the study of hybrid doves and pigeons.
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After lunch, we walked round the spit and swam in a sea like silk, with only a sea eagle and a few white Torres Strait pigeons for company.
If you want to see a war, come between the hours of 6 and 9 in the morning when the doves and pigeons try to eat the grapes.
They gather driftwood for fuel and share a dinner of roast pigeons and boiled samphire.
Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away.
Smashed windows allowed in the pigeons, whose urine and excrement was untouched for years.
Invasives like mute swans and rock pigeons are wreaking ecological havoc throughout the United States and threatening countless native species.
On a recent holiday to Italy, I sat in the main square in Sienna eating pizza surrounded by dive-bombing pigeons.
Experimenters have established the use of a time-compensated sun-compass by homing pigeons and diurnally migrating songbirds.
Homing pigeons taken from their lofts and released as far away as 1,000 km in unfamiliar territory return home.
Balloons and 55 white pigeons were launched by radio stations all over the country on the eve of last Friday's concert.
In 1990, when production of all fruits was relatively poor, the lowest number of pigeons bred for the shortest period of time.
Soon enough, there was some commotion among the birders as Nilo pointed out a flock of green pigeons.
Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there.
This finding strengthened the idea that pigeons unable to see the sun rely on the earth's magnetic field as a compass.
Birds present include the bulbuls, babblers, barbets, kingfishers, shamas, drongos, pigeons, woodpeckers and tailorbirds.
The trainer of the Queen's pigeons, an East Anglian with the improbable name of Carlo Napolitano, was at Sun City.
Of the game birds, the species such as ducks, teals, sand grouses, quails, green pigeons, black-bucks etc. are commonly found in the district.
With the push of a button the hatch swung open immediately reducing the million pigeons to just under a million with a wet feathery splat.
Also, the field should be watched for several days to prevent pigeons, which are remarkably fond of tares, from devouring much of the sown seed.
Taswegians were able to retire their carrier pigeons at long last when the Apple Isle was connected to the rest of the nation by telephone.
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He's also a nature lover and when he saw a hawk chasing pigeons around the Kennaway Hotel on Friday morning he watched in awe.
Residents and shoppers in Rayleigh have been given the bird after council plans to try and deter pigeons from the town centre were abandoned.
A blessed bird-lover from elsewhere in Canada who adores feeding stray pets, pigeons, and pooping seagulls.
The pigeons, probably well used to such manoeuvres, took off timely, to the chagrin of their destructors.
The pigeons on the ledge outside scrabbled from side to side, as Catherine tapped at the glass with a fingernail.
Always the showman, he once hired a falcon to deter pigeons from defiling their sparkling new offices in Victoria.
Whales and pigeons can hear frequencies of sound far below the capacity of the human ear.
This bacterium is primarily carried by birds such as parakeets, parrots, pigeons, turkeys, and ducks.
If I open the barn door, I get a cross breeze in here but it smells a lot like pigeons.
Some species of pigeons and doves have expanded their ranges and increased their population sizes as a result of human activities.
The fungus is a common soil contaminant being excreted in feces of several birds particularly pigeons.
Shooting of live pigeons in the last part of this century was banned and clay pigeon shooting was brought in.
Immediately behind this is the kitchen garden, with still-existing hutches for rabbits, fowls and pigeons.
The harbour walk in Watchet was deserted apart from me and a huddle of damp pigeons.
People in the town feed these pigeons and until they stop chucking food about we will not get rid of them.
He said he'd invented a death ray and he spent his nights communing with the pigeons in Central Park.
The details are lost amid the uneven songs of the pigeons, the beat of wings and scrape of claw on slate.
We also saw collared doves, wood pigeons, barn swallows and a red-wattled plover.
Wood pigeons were churring, providing a steady contra-bass to a splendid dawn chorus, but no more cuckoo.
Cracids have also been noted to consume eggs of pigeons, hummingbirds and tinamous.
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The 40-year-old jobless man was arrested recently for stealing 30 homing pigeons.
The response of homing pigeons to some treatments was dependent on how far they were released from the home loft.
Fifty-eight homing pigeons took part in the auction, which attracted over 200 fans of homing pigeons to the event.
Lives are being put at risk in a village because of a plague of pigeons, a woman has claimed.
After dreaming up a death ray and an artificial aurora to light the world at night, he died in a hotel tending his pet pigeons.
If planning permission were granted, then there is the age-old chestnut of any memorial being vandalised or messed upon by pigeons.
Surely toddlers and young kids have a right of some sort to enjoy chasing pigeons in a park somewhere?
We must festoon the forests with these stones and bring in armies of tohunga to protect the pigeons with chants.
When you need to pause for breath look at the surrounding bush, listen to the birds and watch to see fantails, bellbirds, and native pigeons.
Along these roads are many walking tracks where native birds such as wood pigeons, bellbirds, weka and fantails can be seen and heard.
This same concept is repeated later when the Torah explains the procedure of sacrificing doves or pigeons.
Then there were the pigeons that had snuck in during open hours, which the day shift must not have noticed.
Growing around them were matai, totara and rimu trees, home to native pigeons, tui, bellbirds, and fantails.
Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
There was also trap shooting at clay pigeons and maybe even a shooting gallery below decks.
In this experiment, demonstrator pigeons either stepped on a treadle or pecked at the treadle to obtain a food reward.
Among tremulous flora and fauna are tremandra plants, with their shaking anthers, the gelatinous tremella fungi, and treron pigeons.
And to photograph the dovecote full of multicolored pigeons, all billing, cooing, and scuffling.
Two birds, perfectly white, pink-beaked, dark-eyed, pigeons, settled on the ledge outside my window, billing and cooing as birds will in spring.
Rather than plucking random pigeons off the street, she got in touch with pigeon fanciers who owned homing pigeons.
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The most common worms found in pigeons today are roundworms, hair worms, stomach wall worms, gapeworms, stronglylids, and tapeworms.
Homing pigeons are said to take much longer to navigate to their destination prior to earthquakes.
He is not the quickest horse at home but those who catch pigeons on the gallops don't catch anything on the racecourse.
A few brave souls were feeding them bags of seed or bread scraps, and were being so mobbed by pigeons that I was actually a bit worried for them.
One of them is made for breeding wild birds and the owners already has started keeping pheasants, pigeons, cushats, guinea-fowls.
Our pigeons don't have those pigments in their feathers, however some fruit pigeons and parrots do.
A flight of homing pigeons scramble to get airborne from their loft in an old shed.
The agency slaughtered on Tuesday 45 pigeons, turtle doves and doves, including the infected ones, to prevent the virus from spreading.
My neighbour Hassan Sheikh lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
Every morning I sit on my roof, sip coffee, feed the pigeons, and gaze at the Manhattan skyline.
Crowned pigeons are grey with pink or chestnut underparts and a white wing patch.
Cell phones have been implicated in the disappearance of more than 2,000 homing pigeons during two races in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Based on those observations, he initiated a study of the role of the pelvic and tail musculature in the ventilation of pigeons.
Sparrows, starlings, Indian mynahs and feral pigeons rarely visit Australian gardens, which welcome an array of colourful native birds.
This makes a great deal of sense if we consider the evolutionary origin of homing pigeons.
Trained homing pigeons can find their way over distances as far as 600 miles.
A flock of homing pigeons soared into the azure sky, dispersing before the gates of the city, each striking towards its own destination.
Zoologists at Oxford have come up with a new theory to explain how homing pigeons navigate.
Yamauchi thought that instead they could use these bowling alleys as electronic shooting ranges with simulated clay pigeons.
One of the articles deals with social life of some species such as pigeons and spiders, while another talks of why donkeys bray.
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Wood pigeons and songsters flee at its appearance, yet rarely do they fall prey to this large hawk.
Researchers say their study proves for the first time that homing pigeons can sense Earth's magnetic field.
The newswoman stood in Buehler Park surrounded by a flock of distressed pigeons.
The so-called fruit pigeons as a general rule do not breed as prolifically as the seed eating species.
There is general agreement that homing pigeons use the sun as a compass reference.
When Atlas Bakery permanently turned off the ovens and left the building it became, over the past five years, a favourite spot for vagrants, pigeons and party organisers.
He had pigeons flown in from Cairo and a fridge permanently full of caviar.
My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves.
Giant crowned pigeons, small wallaby kangaroos, cassowary birds, tree kangaroos, and wild boars are abundant within an hour's walk of the village.
A kestrel wheeled over the larches and put the wind up the wood pigeons.
I knew they had seen a kit of pigeons over the town eight miles away.
Aware of the constant phone surveillance, Escobar raised carrier pigeons to facilitate secure communication.
Tyson is, of course, a fan of our feathered friends, owning an army of 2,000 pigeons.
Not only are all the varieties of pigeons still pigeons, however, but if allowed to interbreed they will revert to the common wild-type rock pigeon.
I hesitated outside, listening to the spooky sounds of the pigeons roosting under the roof, but my dinner companions called me a coward and yanked open the door.
And among other things the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the balconies till they were some of them burned and fell down.
The row over what to do about the pigeons has been rumbling on for nearly four years and town councillors are angry that the district council is not moving faster.
Cochran et al. have shown that Catharus thrushes calibrate their magnetic compass on a daily basis using twilight cues, apparently just the reverse of what homing pigeons do.
With the exception of magpies and pigeons, birds are rarely seen in gardens, but the talk included pictures of all kinds of birds in their natural habitats.
The narrow streets that criss-cross these miniature villages terminate in squares with community wells and carved wooden chabutaras for feeding pigeons.
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Wimbledon is fast approaching and with it the unbridled hilarity of pigeons landing on the court, ballboys tripping over and the ball getting stuck in the net.
Environmental health officers hope the cotes will keep pigeons off the streets and discourage them from feeding on waste food and titbits offered by tourists.
The very fact the woman had to run the gauntlet of traffic and pigeons messing on her is proof alone she is not experiencing a level playing field.
Animal activists also found caged birds including parrots, pigeons and crows in the apartment as well as a sewer rat, a hedgehog and piles of food and animal feces.
The idea was to use these empty bowling alleys as shooting ranges for the light guns and simulated clay pigeons with solar-celled light detectors.
Wood pigeons are landing on the flower boxes, breaking all the plants with their fighting and defecating on the bird table, balcony floor and furniture.
The highest diversity of pigeons and doves occurs in tropical rainforests.
The mammal species that are present include goats, foxes, anteaters, rabbits and bats, while the birds are hawks, partridges, daras, pigeons, troupials and a type of cardinal.
The shot which brought him down was fired by the owner of the pigeons.
Large pigeons, bronzewings and doves will eat larger seeds, while smaller doves will eat smaller seeds and grains, similar to that fed to the finches and quail.
Other life included a family of German walkers, a mountain biker, and a flock of racing pigeons that skimmed the heather to mitigate a strong south-westerly.
Volaries of tame pigeons gathered about the fountain for refreshment.
Britain's Cold War spymasters secretly discussed plans to train flocks of homing pigeons to attack enemy targets with tiny but deadly biological weapons.
The way the wind moved through the palm trees, the particular cracks that ran from one end of the street to the other, even the loud cackle of the many pigeons.
Along with camels, pigeons, donkeys, oxen, canaries, cats and dogs, the memorial remembers the eight million horses killed in the Great War alone.
General Slim listed carrier pigeons, dogs, ponies, mules, horses, bullocks, buffaloes, and elephants as all being used by his Fourteenth Army in the Burma campaign.
Using Schletterer's connections with the pigeon breeder network, some 40 experts are now keeping and training about 1,500 carrier pigeons for military use.
It was founded by Paul Julius Reuter, a German Jew transplanted to London who had once used carrier pigeons to bridge a telegraph gap between Belgium and Germany.
We certainly set the cat among the pigeons when we broke the news that Britain's biggest building society would face a demutualisation vote in July.
An anonymous poison-pen letter doing the higher ed rounds has set the cat among the pigeons at the universities' international marketing and recruitment arm.
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Bing's surprise arrival at the station immediately puts the cat among the pigeons, and he appears to actively enjoy the awkwardness he all too often creates around about him.
Repeating the same experiment under overcast showed that pigeons wearing NUP coils headed away from home while birds with SUP coils homed normally.
Clearly, at least some pigeons make use of landmarks in their homing.
To send our secret reports back to Finland, we'd use homing pigeons.
On Market Street with its smells of sweet-and-sour pork and exhaust fumes, a man with his belongings in a shopping cart feeds half a slice of bread to the pigeons.
I was in my car and heading out of the driveway yesterday when I noticed the pigeons clustered around outside the second story window of the barn.
They release white pigeons at the end of every church service.
Their short breeding cycle allows pigeons and doves to have more broods to compensate for their small brood sizes and relatively high rates of predation.
Presently it is the abode of wild pigeons, bats, goats, dogs, pigs etc.
And lots of animals, from coyotes to common pigeons, mate for life.
Maybe he'd seen our happy faces, staring from Mrs. Larkin's apple tree, realising that there must be more to life than filching apples and scaring pigeons.
We went to Venice a few days later and it was full of dirty pigeons and busloads of ghastly American tourists shrieking at each other like fishwives.
In the park the pigeons flap and coo, and a couple of girls wearing pink headscarves rock idly backwards and forwards on the red swings beside the climbing frame.
As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit.
Even as I tell people about our new garden, an image flashes up of friendly old men bending down over enormous cabbages, their pigeons softly cooing in the loft behind.
Dogs darted among the crowd with the children, their barks mingling with the yowls of cats in alleys and on rooftops and the coos and flutter of pigeons taking flight.
More than 10,100 competitors were expected to take part in 25 different sections at the three-day event, ranging from pigeons to cattle and foxhounds to flower arranging.
There was a large enclosure near the parking area that contained a pair of Eclectus Parrots, a pair of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, and several crowned pigeons.
Dease's journal provides accounts of wandering flocks of pigeons depredating barley crops at Fort Simpson, far to the north of their known breeding range.
Nestling pigeons and doves grow rapidly because of the crop-milk.
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The Mourning Dove is the most slender of Washington's pigeons and doves.
Doocots, or dovecots, were built for pigeons or doves to nest in.
The council is also launching a leaflet campaign to aimed at people who feed the birds on a regular basis, asking them to feed the pigeons at the dovecote.
As Amelia and her granddad fed the pigeons, Amelia had to get Flapjack alone and out of ear range from her granddad.
Probably the best way to do that is to prepare a flock of rock pigeons or band-tailed pigeons.
Something has to give and by throwing the Cardiff Bay cat amongst the pigeons, Mr Andrews has at least covered all bases.
The square was once famous for feral pigeons and feeding them was a popular activity.
Clinically healthy homing pigeons may serve as an unnoticed reservoir for zoonotic bacteria.
There'll be tug-o-war, a yard of ale competition, clay pigeons and even showbiz 'turns' provided by locals.
But many researchers were not convinced that wind-borne odors could provide the map pigeons need to navigate.
It was well known for its feral pigeons until their removal in the early 21st century.
This statement will, I believe. be corroborated by any unprejudiced Homer man that has had an actual experience with Hen pigeons.
Earlier versions went on pigeons and polo horses, and Wilson now has collars on lions and African wild dogs.
Little spiclets waved dead pigeons. Crutch tossed them American dimes and watched the brawls that ensued.
He caught a Rahu fish weighing around three kilos, and brought home a pair of pigeons for his wife to cook.
His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible.
And the moonlight on the Church seemed to shift and quiver-some pigeons perhaps had been disturbed up there.
Ringneck doves are also commonly called Barbary doves, turtle doves, and some people even refer to them as pigeons.
But many researchers were not convinced that wind-borne odours could provide the map pigeons need to navigate.
Throughout the county pheasant, wood pigeon and feral pigeons are widespread.
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As pigeons propagate so rapidly, I suppose that a thousand or fifteen hundred birds would have to be annually killed by mere chance.
Certain birds, mammals, and fish are susceptible to scurvy, but pigeons are unaffected, since they can synthesize ascorbic acid internally.
The men did not eat human flesh, but rather sheep, lamb, duck, pigeons, and deer, and cooked the meat.
Once on her window-sill Harmony found among the pigeons a carrier pigeon with a brass tube fastened to its leg.
Feral pigeons are found in large numbers in cities and towns all over the world.
Numerous breeds of fancy pigeons of all sizes, colours and types have been bred.
Peregrine falcons and Eurasian sparrowhawks are natural predators of pigeons that are quite adept at catching and feeding upon this species.
The pigeon milk is produced in the crops of both parents in all species of pigeons and doves.
Those included the inhumane slaughter of chickens, causing wild rats to be attacked by dogs and taking feral pigeons to feed ferrets.
Originally found wild in Europe, North Africa, and western Asia, pigeons have become established in cities around the world.
Wild rock doves are pale grey with two black bars on each wing, while domestic and feral pigeons are very variable in colour and pattern.
Jan China of Southend Hospital said feral pigeons were a historic problem on the site.
In Tyne and Wear it was the battle of the pigeons, with the wood pigeon in fifth place and the feral pigeon up one notch to ninth.
Escaped domestic pigeons have raised the populations of feral pigeons around the world.
A renowned academic will travel to Newcastle next week and could put the cat among the pigeons.
We want to really put the cat among the pigeons as we have in the past but it's getting progressively more difficult.
Step forward Alsop to put the cat among the pigeons and prompt the club's vocal band to crank it up a couple of notches.
They call it folie de grandeur, the self-deluding sense of importance that makes peacocks out of pigeons.
The disease occurs in numerous types of birds, including pigeons, where it is called canker and birds of prey, where it is known as frounce.
That idea may put the cat among the pigeons, but let us take one step at a time.
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That result has put the cat among the pigeons in terms of the title race with four points separating the top three clubs.
In Central Europe, the diet in winter months is dominated by birds including quail, grey partridges, grouse, chickens, pigeons and passerines.
India removed Younis and skipper Misbah-ul-Haq to put the cat among the pigeons.
Long-eared owls are smaller than wood pigeons, with head feathers known as ear tufts that are raised when they are alarmed.
Each episode explores a variety of different topics, from wolf spiders, velvet ants and click beetles to opossums, pigeons and bats.
However, it does not mean pigeons have the general ability of counting numbers.
Operators mixed up the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe officers, provided stool pigeons and even set up an undercover interpreter.
Younger, sexier, better track record, more Because, unlike stool pigeons, I've yet to see one shamelessly pecking the badge.
Distraught allotment owner Davey Rae said he lost his prized stock pigeons in the fire, which he said claimed 10 plots.
The mural, featuring a group of pigeons holding anti-immigration banners, appeared this week in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
A large and exceptionally aggressive female merlin may take prey as large as pigeons and occasionally even small ducks.
However, if they saw good omens such as nanny goats, pigeons or wolves, then the marriage would have good fortune.
There are more than 50 aviaries with parrots, falcons, pheasants, hornbills, toucans, touracos, pigeons, ibis and many more.
The shorter focal length of shearwater eyes give them a smaller, but brighter, image than is the case for pigeons.
There are mynahs, crows, pigeons, hud huds either lying dead on the grass or in their final death throes.
In the past the SPS revealed the most common pests were ants, silverfish, mice, bluebottles, wasps, pigeons, cockroaches and rats.
After the war one of the main interests in the North of England was the racing of short distance pigeons, known as Shorties.
Yorkshire Building Society has set the cat among the pigeons with the UK's lowest ever two-year fixed-rate mortgage.
They sang along at the music hall, fancied their pigeons, gambled on horse racing, and took the family to Blackpool in summer.
Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship.
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Responses to magnetic fields by homing pigeons, fruit flies and flatworms also are apparently affected by lunar phase.
She says rounding up the pigeons with nets groups healthy and sick birds indiscriminately.
Many breeds of rock pigeons sport these crests, even though the birds come from different branches of the pigeon family tree.
The Weekly News noted parakeets are very aggressive birds, which frequently muscle out pigeons and sparrows from local nests, and also carry parrot disease.
Vagrants and pigeons at times outnumbered window-shoppers and tourists.
Cardinals and blue jays also have crests, but no one knows whether those feathered cowlicks arise thanks to changes in the same gene as in pigeons.
They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
Another practice was the use of pigeons when treating swellings.
A Try Grazers spray, which protects from pigeons, deer, rabbits and geese.
The Sunday Times' revelations about alleged bribery surrounding the selection of Qatar for the 2022 World Cup has put a whole clowder of cats among the pigeons.
Somebody stole my stock pigeons in January, but they've never been caught.
As well as food and pets, domesticated pigeons are used as homing pigeons.
Let us say that the pigeons learned to recognize treeness, in the sense that they quickly enough learned to differentiate whatever exemplified treeness from whatever did not.
Doves and pigeons are considered to be game birds, as many species have been hunted and used for food in many of the countries in which they are native.
Besides, we're all going to go up to some gun club next Saturday where they do a lot of trap shooting and practice shooting at clay pigeons with our bows.
The birds that prey on pigeons in North America can range in size from American kestrels to golden eagles and can even include gulls, crows, and ravens.
He kept Pekinese dogs, chickens, budgies and racing pigeons.
The rock dove has so interbred with the feral pigeons from doocots and racing pigeon lofts that, as a pure species, it may possibly now be extinct in Britain.
In fact, with feral pigeons existing in almost every city in the world, they may form the majority of prey for several raptor species that live in urban areas.
Forty-five domestic pigeons were infected orally with 200 S calchasi sporocysts and euthanatized in groups of 3 pigeons at intervals of 2 to 10 days over a period of 61 days.

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