Pigeons

Synanthropic populations are usually quite numerous. They settle in different urban, suburban or rural locations. They nest in garrets, bell towers, attics, monuments’ crevices, wherever there’s an opening or an empty space, that humans or predators can’t reach. Basically, they follow a plant-based and granivorous diet (cereals, sprouts and seeds), even though pigeons could also eat little invertebrates, mostly molluscs. In urban settings, the biggest part of their food comes from humans (bread, pasta, crumbles or garbage) and it is usually willingly given. Some groups of pigeons move to surrounding countryside, above all in sowing period and harvest season. In such a way they make “feeding flights”, up to 10 km from suburbs.