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u/Lorelessone Jul 14 '26
I didn't know they could order in!
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u/Historical-Count-374 Jul 14 '26
The falcon looked amazed at the audacity a lowley pigeon would have to come upon the nest of royalty.
She set upon him as such
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u/nesnalica Jul 14 '26
the falcon was confused but pretty chill until she really tried to get in there.
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u/AirconGuyUK Jul 14 '26
'Welp here I go killing again!'
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u/Stolen_Sky Jul 14 '26
She was sitting on eggs.
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u/MetzgerWilli Jul 14 '26
*Or he. Though from the apparent size of it, it might be a female.
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u/Annoying_Repentance Jul 14 '26
Pretty sure it’s a female. Males have all white chests. This one has alot of markings.
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u/64590949354397548569 Jul 14 '26
The male falcon comes home and he would never believe her.
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u/EddieLobster Jul 14 '26
Yeah he would, there is a pigeon corpse right outside.
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset Jul 14 '26
apparently there is a longer edit of this video and the pigeon later got away, though not without losing quite a few feathers: https://www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/comments/16qtbdp/pigeon_thought_it_could_just_cosy_up_to_a_falcon/
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u/Copper_Nanotubes Jul 14 '26
Well thats just embarrassing for everyone involved.
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u/ExerciseOnly122 Jul 14 '26
Tbf to the falcon, they hunt by dive-bombing their prey and knocking it out or outright killing it through pure kinetic energy. they don't really know how to deal with a perfectly healthy pigeon that is actively trying to escape.
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u/CrazyAszSpartan Jul 14 '26
This should be pinned. Funny that the uncropped and full video has less views
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u/64590949354397548569 Jul 14 '26
Who gave her the catch?
Who? I bet its Danny from upstate.
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u/boersc Jul 14 '26
Why is there food walking into my home?
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u/StrawBerylShortcake Jul 14 '26
Doordash
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u/gbmdbr Jul 14 '26
Ubird Eats was right there.
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u/JaeHxC Jul 14 '26
GrubHub, if we're counting the pigeon's stomach contents.
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u/_DrVanNostrand__ Jul 14 '26
Falcon was just feeling a little peckish
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u/chosonhawk Jul 14 '26
pack it up, folks. thats a raptor.
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u/ComplaintBrief2754 Jul 14 '26
Clever girl
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u/Scenaris Jul 14 '26
Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
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u/StrawBerylShortcake Jul 14 '26
IM A FAILURE
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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 Jul 14 '26
Don't be too hard on yourself...not everyone has a talon for wordplay.
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u/StrawBerylShortcake Jul 14 '26
How dare you
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u/Lazy_Palpitation7807 Jul 14 '26
Damn that was a low blow. They literally kicked you while you were down.
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u/archercc81 Jul 14 '26
But like the wrong order.
"I didnt order door dash?!?! Did I?"
"Well shit, free meal!"
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 Jul 14 '26
That first look was:
"Really? Bitch, are you serious?"
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u/Captain_no_Hindsight Jul 14 '26
I like how the pigeon tries to squeeze past ...
-"Don't worry about me, I'm just going to..."
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u/TXOgre09 Jul 14 '26
He was trying to decide if it was a dream.
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u/GabrielleArcha Jul 14 '26
This!!! This is the comment I was looking for, because that initial confusion was priceless 😂
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u/StepComplete1 Jul 14 '26
"Don't mind me, just gonna use your bathroom real quick"
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u/AdMountain6203 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
"Would you be interested in subletting? Do you mind if I take a look around?"
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u/TaytoChip Jul 14 '26
“Man… that’s one big pigeon. Hope we can be friends” -Pigeon probably
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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 Jul 14 '26
"Why is he so ouchy?"
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u/fondledbydolphins Jul 14 '26
"There's a dagger in my bum"
-as he dangles from the dagger in his bum.
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u/TaytoChip Jul 14 '26
“…and doesn’t, for some unexpected reason, kick my ass” -Still Pigeon probably
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u/Economy_Fan_8808 Jul 14 '26
There's a saying in Hungarian: "waiting for the roast pigeon to fly in your mouth" for people who don't do anything but expect something good to happen. Here's the illustration.
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u/Independent_Income31 Jul 14 '26
Will someone please think about the poor pigeon!
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u/rviVal1 Jul 14 '26
No. They are so dumb, they literally lost all self preservation instincts.
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u/Chagdoo Jul 14 '26
They were basically pets released into the wild, ofc they lost their self preservation instincts.
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u/Harry-Jotter Jul 14 '26
This one is a wood pigeon, which is a wild species (not feral pigeon, which is descended from wild rock doves). They are naturally not the brightest bulbs without any human influence.
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u/kjgunn7 Jul 14 '26
This guy pigeons
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u/Harry-Jotter Jul 14 '26
They used to nest outside my window and wake me up by flapping around and cooing at all hours as the male tried to impress the female lol.
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u/mamut2000 Jul 14 '26
what was the plan there?
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u/Organic_Initiative93 Jul 14 '26
Friends said "Just ask her, the worst she can say is no"
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u/TrumpsBoneSpur Jul 14 '26
The "Friends" are probably the ones recording the video too
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u/VulfSki Jul 14 '26
Two of the friends are shouting "it's just a prank bro, it's just a prank!"
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u/batiwa Jul 14 '26
I don't think he even asked anything there lol, just walked in like it was his home
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u/SnooCupcakes6107 Jul 14 '26
Pigeons have no brains
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u/0m3gaph03nix Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Humans domesticated pigeons for 200 years and then kicked them to the curb back into the wild with no survival skills when they didn't need carrier pigeon services anymore. That's why pigeons cling to populated cities and don't seem so afraid of us. We're all they knew for two centuries and we're all they know now. Except now we call them pests and they eat human garbage to survive
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u/Raptor_Zefier Jul 14 '26
To my understanding, this is partially true. I did a bit of googling to look things up since that doesnt really make sense to me. Messenger pigeons still where hunted by Falcons and Hawks in flight, so they should still have some flight instinct when faced with one even when domesticated. This is what I found out;
They stay close to cities because they never were evolved for living in forests. Wild Rock Pigeons nest on cliff faces and tend to eat grains and seeds. Forests favor a more insectivorious diet, while there ARE seeds, grain is hard to come by. However in cities, these things are plentiful.
They have survival skills, just for their own environment which a city best replicates with its artificial cliffs in buildings. Cities just fulfill their needs better then the forests that usually surround big cities. Moreover, theyre rather smart, being one of the few animals to pass a mirror recognition test.
The above video highlights a kind of interesting quirk with Pigeon survival instincts. They dont recognize landed falcons as threats readily. Primarily because a landed Falcon isnt typically hunting. A falcon in the air is when its most dangerous and is usually hunting, and that's when the flight instinct kicks in.
In short this is kind of an odd rare quirk you'll see in Pigeons where they dont see roosting predators as threats, because that's just not when they're usually hunted.
Granted theres still truth to what youre saying, such as a Pigeons lack of fear of humans. However the truth of what's going on in the video is a bit more complex.
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u/beerme81 Jul 14 '26
Fuck, we suck.
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u/0m3gaph03nix Jul 14 '26
Yeah, we're goddamn monsters as a species
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u/Lissba Jul 14 '26
We destroy everything we touch.
We’ll cook this mother alive 🌏
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u/Zestyclose-Smell-305 Jul 14 '26
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u/tomatotomato Jul 14 '26
Suicide by falcon. A common and sad theme in pigeon community.
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u/Pristine_Currency_77 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
In actuality it’s because (rock) pigeons are actually descendent from abandoned doves (why we don’t release them anymore) and have zero survival instincts because they’re literally domesticated.
So they’re invasive and have 0 defense against predators. It’s why you can get so close to them compared to any other bird.
Just like feral cats, an ecological disaster and tragedy created by us. I always feel like we as a society abandoned them once they were no longer white and pure in our eyes.
Edit: this applies to rock pigeons, not all pigeon species.
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u/Theraimbownerd Jul 14 '26
While this is true for rock pigeons, the one in the video is a wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) which is and always has been a wild bird. It's possible that the one in the video was born in captivity, but they aren't a feral species.
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u/Aromatic-Insect-1328 Jul 14 '26
Assisted suicide. Aimed that beak right at them.
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u/Gummyrabbit Jul 14 '26
The pigeon was like “Don’t mind me. Just looking at your place. Oooh…I like this cozy little corner in the back. Let me try it ou..”
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u/mjtwelve Jul 14 '26
Like, seriously, it decided to double down and hope the falcon wouldn’t notice it was a pigeon rather than back out and apologize for the intrusion.
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u/Zoon9 Jul 14 '26
They idetify raptors by their silhouette. Which is absent when sitting in the nest.
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u/ADeformedPoolboy Jul 14 '26
Pigeon just like the dumb friend that dropped by uninvited. "Hi, whatcha doin'? What's that over there? Whatcha sitting and doing there? You have a PlayStation? I'm better at Mortal Kombat than you."
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u/rebirf Jul 14 '26
I once was inside my apartment playing rock band with my roommate and we had the door open because the weather was nice. This random dude drunk and high as fuck just walks into our living room and just starts vibing. I feel like this pigeon got the unlucky version of just wandering around and ended up in the wrong house.
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u/Extreme_Mobile_6690 Jul 14 '26
Amaze, Amaze, Amaze!
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u/Kalyka988 Jul 14 '26
There is no plan. Pigeons are as dumb as a rock. The only reason they aren't extinct is that they eat about anything and reproduce very quickly like rats.
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u/MildlyAgreeable Jul 14 '26
Quick shout out to the WW1 pigeons who were OG messengers during some pretty brutal campaigns. A few of them were released after the war and some of their descendants will be cutting around the streets today (in the UK at least).
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u/RepealArtcl343And351 Jul 14 '26
There is probably one pigeons who shat on the war memorial, not knowing his ancestor was part of the war effort.
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u/Angryfunnydog Jul 14 '26
Yeah, but they weren't necessarily less dumb, they were selected for the ability to find their "home" nest from far away distance, endurance and bravery (which can also be accounted to stupidity and not comprehending the danger). I think that lots of people (like myself some time ago) think that post pigeons just flew to some random locations to deliver news, while they essentially just were taken from nests, and then released with a message, so they just returned to their nests, they could be used only one way
But being dumb doesn't make them less useful and celebrated! They're pretty cool
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u/themanalyst Jul 14 '26
This is not true at all, pigeons are known to be pretty intelligent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_intelligence
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u/InviolableAnimal Jul 14 '26
I believe you (and wikipedia), which makes this video all the more baffling lol
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u/DunnyOnTheWold Jul 14 '26
As a species, yes. But like my coworker, there are individuals at the lowest brackets.
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u/Anonymus_Pigeon Jul 14 '26
You're wrong about that. Pigeons are one of the most intelligent birds. They're capable of recognizing themselves in the mirror as well as capable of solving mathematical equations.
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u/Vier_Scar Jul 14 '26
The probability that I get murked by this Falcon is the integral of the normal distribution wherAHK!
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u/jello_kraken Jul 14 '26
"Oh! Uh, didn't see you there....just uh, left my wallet..." c'mon play it cool, man, and the falcon will let us go...
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u/UnDeadPuff Jul 14 '26
Seeing how pigeons "nest", it was probably going to attempt to make a nest inside this other bird's nest. Considering pigeons are more or less pets we released back to the wilds, they are very much not apt to surviving on their own and do stupid crap.
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u/colourmill Jul 14 '26
You are talking about city pigeons which are domesticated feral animals.
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u/hologrammetry Jul 14 '26
With those survival instincts I’m surprised it’s made it this long.
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u/dukearcher Jul 14 '26
they are very much not apt to surviving on their own
Yeah definitely don't see many pigeons around huh?
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u/ParkingShelter9634 Jul 14 '26
"Nice house you got here"
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u/Haunting_Security_34 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
I love how the falcon looks less hungry and just more offended the pigeon even tried to chill there in the first place😂 pigeon looked back at him TWICE 💀💀
WAIT WAIT LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING-
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u/tiptoe_only Jul 14 '26
It was like "what the...excuse me, what the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK? Hell no, I'm not having this."
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u/serack Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Now I want an Ozzyman of this
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u/Fezarion123 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
Alright, strap yourself in, because today we’ve got an absolute contender for the Darwin Awards. Here we have a pigeon. Let’s call him Gary. Gary is just out for a casual Tuesday stroll. La di da, what a lovely day to be a bird...
He spots a cozy little alcove. Oh, look at this! A nice, rustic apartment. Rent-free, presumably. He pops his head in to inspect the real estate.
Now, anyone with a single, functioning brain cell would notice the tenant inside is a literal peregrine falcon. An apex predator designed to turn pigeons into confetti. The falcon is staring at Gary like, Are you taking the absolute piss, mate?
But Gary? Gary goes full send. He walks right in! Mind if I set up my nest here, neighbor?
BAM! Instant fucking regret! The falcon goes, Welcome to the buffet, you are the main course! It is absolute wing-flapping chaos! Feathers flying everywhere! Gary is officially Destination: Fucked!
The falcon pins him down immediately. Look at the falcon’s face! He’s looking at the camera like, Are you seeing this shit? Ubird Eats is getting ridiculously efficient. I didn't even have to order!
Gary is doing the classic wing-flutter of absolute desperation. Please mate, it was a prank! It was for a BirdTok! Nah, sorry Gary. You don't walk directly into a dragon's den and expect a warm cup of tea. Absolute dummy.
Stay safe out there, don't walk into random holes, and I'll see you next time!
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u/Suryawong Jul 14 '26
Is it just me or is the pigeon walking past the falcon giving “Let me speak to your manager” energy?
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u/Dontshipmebro Jul 14 '26
Falcon: "dont. Seriously, dont. Oh for fucks sake"
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u/bydh Jul 14 '26
Is this a joke? OK, meals on wheels it is.
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u/Stolen_Sky Jul 14 '26
The Falcon was sitting on her eggs. Probably didn't want a fight at that moment.
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u/Environmental_Ad3216 Jul 14 '26
"And the food just.. walked right in! It was insane!"
"No way, Samuel. You lying!"
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u/Prestigious_Floor155 Jul 14 '26
I like how the pigeon looked him straight in the face, twice, confirming he was indeed a Falcon. And then decided to mess with his tail.
That Falcon was just going to let the whole thing slide till they did that.
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u/duckinasombrero Jul 14 '26
Man, I once saw a pigeon knock one of their own off an overpass into rush-hour traffic. They weren't fighting, it was just for the thrill, I guess. Pigeons are nuts.
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u/p0mjDwfWF Jul 14 '26
I fly drones in pigeon-heavy areas. They’d fly around a bunch like they were trying to scare away the interloper. I thought “they could never be ~that~ dumb.”
I was wrong. However, I learned that a big enough drone will shrug off a few pigeon corpses.
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u/duckinasombrero Jul 14 '26
The kids in the playground you didn't notice watching this scene like
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u/NotAGreatClinician Jul 14 '26
I have a soft spot for pigeons.
All North America. Pigeons are descendants of fully domesticated birds that we bred all their natural instincts out of, and after the invention of the telegram and telephone we just tossed them. They live primarily in cities because for a thousand+ years they were safe with us and don’t know any better.
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u/CyberSkelet Jul 14 '26
I do wild bird rescue, and it's surprising how much birds don't know by instinct and have to learn through experience. This wood pigeon MAY know by some instinct the deadly outline of a falcon flying in the sky, but I'll bet he had absolutely no idea what they look like close-up. I imagine very few wood pigeons have ever seen such a thing and lived. He was probably looking for a nesting site, came upon this guy, and thought, "oh, this is some strange bird, but he's just sitting here minding his own business. Dosn't seem threatening. Well, I'll have a look at the nesting material/space avaliable in here aaarrggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
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u/InevitableHorror1342 Jul 14 '26
That went about how I expected
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u/rodbrs Jul 14 '26
I expected the pigeon to quickly walk right out because I assumed (correctly) that the falcon would have been caught flat-footed. What I didn't expect was for the pigeon to be even slower on the uptake.
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u/Slow_Description_773 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
The falcon’s face is priceless.
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u/sagesmoke_ Jul 14 '26
Falcons face when the pigon walked in.
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u/SharkByte1993 Jul 14 '26
Fucking pigeon starts rummaging around their nest. Who do they think they are?
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u/WifesPOSH Jul 14 '26
I think the irony is that falcons don't build their own nest. They usually use prebuilt nests and come back to them every year. Effectively utilizing squatter's rights.
The company I used to work for had a falcon nest, and every year there was a vote to name the hatched chicks (or whatever the babies are called).
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u/meowsterpainter Jul 14 '26
There is no way a falcon would ever steal a pigeon’s nest though. They are famous for being the worse nest builders in the entire bird kingdom, often placing as little as two sticks on the ground and calling it good.
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u/Legacyopplsnerf Jul 14 '26
That strat makes sense when you remember their natural habitat is cliff faces, just find a divot in the rock, lay the egg and put down a few twigs so it doesn't roll off. Most of the work is in finding a good spot to lay the egg.
City pigeons just make do with whatever looks vaguely cliff shaped.
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u/meowsterpainter Jul 14 '26
Sounds sensible on paper, but then if you go look at some of the nests on that dove subreddit you start to wonder.
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u/JournalistShoddy9496 Jul 14 '26
Pigeon: "Why do I hear boss music?"
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u/PuzzyFussy Jul 14 '26
Where is that saxophone coming from and why is it getting louder
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u/Chrisbolsmeister Jul 14 '26
Uber Eats " hello I am your meal"
in French "pigeon" is slang for Idiot. this video shows clearly why.
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u/mrmidnightuk Jul 14 '26
this is like a pizza being delivered to your house and you just taking it. free pizza is free pizza
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u/Gler4 Jul 14 '26
however it ended, that dove is not going to do that again...
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u/Horror-Coffee-3207 Jul 14 '26
The dove gets away in the Full video
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u/United-Vermicelli-92 Jul 14 '26
Thank you I couldn’t bear watching
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u/appel Jul 14 '26
The older I get, the less I can stomach any kind of (implied) physical hurt or death, no matter what animal it is. Like that video of the mouse looking straight at the camera while being carried off by a bird, it just breaks me.
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u/useriousstuff Jul 14 '26
Idk what it is about getting a bit older but I strongly agree. Rationally I know that the predator has to eat, it's completely natural cycle of life and death, etc... but I just don't care to watch it these days. It's translated into how I eat as well.
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u/Haidere1988 Jul 14 '26
Yea, we don't see the pigeon at the end of the full video, but the falcon came back without a body.
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u/Dumeck Jul 14 '26
Actually this same pidgeon fucks with this same falcon multiple times. Not even kidding they didn't learn shit
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u/shakebakelizard Jul 14 '26
That pigeon had 5-10 business days to leave and it just stood there like "Well? You gonna move or what?"
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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_583 Jul 14 '26
Ol' Falcon like DID THIS DELICIOUS PIGEON JUS WALKED IN & TRIED TO GET COMFORTABLE😋
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u/Blurstingwithemotion Jul 14 '26
We don't know that was the falcons nest it could have been the pigeons 😅
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u/Ready_Studio2392 Jul 14 '26
I see more than 7 twigs placed on the ground.
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u/Vier_Scar Jul 14 '26
7?? They lay an egg on some bicycle seat and whisper the word "nest" over it. Eggs are kept safe by hopes and dreams
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u/Maardten Jul 14 '26
Pidgeon nests are usually actually pretty smart and effective.
They build on high ledges so all they need is a few twigs to prevent the eggs from rolling off the edge.
Building a larger nest in a location like that would just increase the chances of a gust of wind blowing the entire nest away.
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u/UnitedPanic197 Jul 14 '26
I they had an argument before this. Got drunk and came back... "You know what, I ain't scared of youaahghaahgaaa my feathers"
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u/rynoctopus Jul 14 '26
Me in BG3, saving right before I do the stupid choice because I want to see what happens.
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u/yoricm Jul 14 '26
Pigeons aren't really smart, are they?
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u/themanalyst Jul 14 '26
They are actually pretty intelligent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_intelligence
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u/yoricm Jul 14 '26
They're capable of mirror self-recognition, have good memory and navigation skills.
I guess we need to specify what kind of intelligence we're talking about. It's very specific to a situation or task.
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