r/interesting • u/I-T-Y • Jul 14 '26

NATURE Pigeon walks into falcon's nest

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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/binarybrewmx Jul 14 '26

Falcon wasn’t even hungry, it just pecking at his food

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u/iknowalotaboutdrugs Jul 14 '26

r/yourjokebutworse

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u/username_is_too_shor Jul 14 '26

While were doing these bad jokes... but worse

Peking pigeon

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u/Succulent_Chinese Jul 14 '26

You're right, that was worse!

Fowl play indeed.

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u/GottaHave_AHobby Jul 15 '26

So Talonted , all of you …

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u/KillerBeer01 Jul 14 '26

Well, it's important to establish a proper pecking order from the beginning.

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u/CoolFirefighter930 Jul 14 '26

it eats like a bird.

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u/Davitarides Jul 14 '26

Id have loved to see it continue and the falcon just lets it go after biting and throwing it around, just pull out some tail feathers to teach it a lesson and let it go.

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u/Kreatoreagan Jul 14 '26

The pigeon watched a documentary and thought it was gonna be like that lioness that was friendly to a deer

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u/KillerBeer01 Jul 14 '26

He forgot he doesn't look like Bambi, though.

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u/ElijahNSRose Jul 14 '26

Grindr, if we're counting the contents of the falcon's.

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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/captain_winky69 Jul 14 '26

Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend.

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u/Scenaris Jul 14 '26

Alan? Alan!

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u/ladyc672 Jul 14 '26

Ian...FREEZE!!

RIP Sam Neill.

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u/Not3KidsInACoat777 Jul 14 '26

User name tracks lol

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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/StrawBerylShortcake Jul 14 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Wvo6vaUsQa3Di

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u/Smooth-Pianist-7848 Jul 14 '26

I'm sorry that person was such a pecker to you. Don't feel too bad, they were probably born in a beaker.. you know, a real science experiment. It's fine, you're still doing better than them, since you left the nest and spread your wings.

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u/purplepistachio Jul 14 '26

The eagle-eyed among you will spot the pun there

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u/SpeakToMePF1973 Jul 14 '26

Fowl canned.

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u/Cjkrythos Jul 14 '26

You might as well take flight before the puns ground you

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u/Red_wine120 Jul 14 '26

Or the wings

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u/NamesGumpImOnthePum Jul 14 '26

Those talons leave pun-ture wounds, well played. Take my updoot

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u/mexicanhelium Jul 14 '26

Or Coo-ber Eats?

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u/Careful-Membership79 Jul 14 '26

Underrated comment

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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/Freeway267 Jul 14 '26

More like Birddash

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u/StrawBerylShortcake Jul 14 '26

Dovedash

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u/Get_Ahead_SC Jul 14 '26

Dominos Pigeon … I’ll see myself out.

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u/Aeioluz Jul 14 '26

It's not delivery it's Digiorno

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u/sicksicksick Jul 14 '26

I came here to mention the time my doorbell rang and I went out to find a doordash Taco Bell order for like a family of five. One of the best moments of my life. Diarrhea for days.

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u/Tringa-dot Jul 14 '26

Wingstop, if you will

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u/rickie_k Jul 14 '26

FalconDash

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u/0DSavior Jul 14 '26

Wingdash 

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u/brsmr123 Jul 14 '26

Dovedash

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u/Fatsackafat Jul 14 '26

CondorDash was right there homie.

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u/Duncol42 Jul 14 '26

Was just about to write this xD

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u/pra_com001 Jul 14 '26

Ohh great! I don't have to pay the tip.

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u/cosguy224 Jul 14 '26

PigeonSmash

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u/tom_p_legend Jul 14 '26

I was going for Delivercoo!

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u/ClickNo1129 Jul 14 '26

Ah. So it was the wrong house.

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u/Dushov Jul 15 '26

Doordash ❎

Nestdash ✅

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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 Jul 14 '26

That first look was:

"Really? Bitch, are you serious?"

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u/The-red-Dane Jul 14 '26

"The audacity of this bitch..."

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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 Jul 14 '26

"You gon learn today"

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u/thedaveness Jul 14 '26

And that is where we lost it as a species… education is fun kids!

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u/AdMountain6203 Jul 14 '26

To be fair, birds of prey have resting "the audacity of this bitch" face. 😂

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u/The-red-Dane Jul 14 '26

Except when viewed head on, most hawks have a sorta "oh fuck" expression.

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u/scubabari2 Jul 14 '26

The lion the witch...

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u/greenizdabest Jul 14 '26

The lion, the witch and the sheer audacity of this bitch

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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/fingernmuzzle Jul 14 '26

Ope lemme just scootch right past ya here

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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/MyNameIsSkittles Jul 14 '26

He was wondering how a creature could be so fucking stupid and then the pigeon got up in his shit

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u/Fetzie_ Jul 14 '26

Definitely looked like what my cats do if you hold a piece of steak in front of their noses while they’re sleeping 😂

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u/StepComplete1 Jul 14 '26

"Don't mind me, just gonna use your bathroom real quick"
"Oh hell naw"

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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/Top_Bumblebee5510 Jul 14 '26

Do you have a moment to talk about your car insurance?

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u/primeweevil Jul 14 '26

Have you found our Bird Lord and Savior?

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u/shanatard Jul 14 '26

i want to believe the falcon didnt even want to move until the pigeon started getting too close

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u/Classic-Young-1677 Jul 14 '26

Tá me tirando?

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u/my_angry_alt Jul 14 '26

“I eat you. Are you dumb?”

“…Is that a trick question?

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u/ARiley22 Jul 14 '26

ikr...was like..."am I seeing things?"

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u/ItsAllAdvertising Jul 15 '26

like, lets see where this goes

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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/velvetvagine Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

So it DOES work sometimes!

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u/wen_mars Jul 14 '26

Well it wasn't roasted, the falcon had to get up and kill it

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u/SovietSunrise Jul 14 '26

I’m flying to Hungary soon! How do you say it in Hungarian?

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u/Economy_Fan_8808 Jul 14 '26

"várja, hogy a sült galamb a szájába repüljön"

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u/wefolas Jul 15 '26

So I've been watching the katmai falls stream, where salmon jump up and bears hang around for dinner. Most of the bears are at the base, but a couple stand on top. I'm just like 90% or whatever of the fish don't make it, the bears at the bottom can just wait for the fish to tire out, etc. What does the bear at the top expect, the fish to jump into its mouth? Sure enough, sometimes the fish just jumps right at the bear, and in the right places it gets more fish than the ones at the base. The bear's smarter than me.

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u/Unlikely-Answer Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

if you have a good attitude, fortune sometimes finds you

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u/IneffableOpinion Jul 15 '26

So there’s a chance it works

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u/NeetyThor Jul 15 '26

But roast pigeons DO end up in my mouth AND I’m Hungarian.

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u/Edhinor Jul 14 '26

Deliver-coo

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u/Dcnoob Jul 14 '26

Breakfast in bed

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u/ImposterSyndromeNope Jul 14 '26

I wasn’t really hungry but if you insist!

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u/Davitarides Jul 14 '26

Nah, he’s just teaching a lesson and ‘playing’ with it.

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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/Davitarides Jul 14 '26

Typical young neighbors

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u/GNC_Wakko Jul 14 '26

It must have worked. You're still talking about it

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u/boobers3 Jul 14 '26

They like to tap dance on my A/C unit outside my window.

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u/Fearless_Mission9994 Jul 14 '26

But we did that to them.. you could also argue the same for us as a species!!

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u/StoneheartedLady Jul 14 '26

Pretty sure that's a wood pigeon, not one from domesticated escapees. They're naturally greedy, lazy, and apparently oblivious to danger, as well as breeding pretty much 365 days a year if they have access to food and a stick to make a nest. Feral pigeons are a lot sharper.

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u/Phngarzbui Jul 14 '26

and a stick to make a nest

Can confirm. We have two at work who breed for a few years now in the same idiotic flat space in a steel grid.

The male bringing sticks who never stay where there are supposed to be, him climbing over her to try and fix it, eggs falling out because... well... absolutely flat surface.

It's almost a sitcom at this point. But they're trying.

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u/gilroygilgalahad Jul 14 '26

They're naturally greedy, lazy, and apparently oblivious to danger, as well as breeding pretty much 365 days a year if they have access to food and a stick to make a nest.

Sounds like your average suburbanite.

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u/UmmmW1 Jul 14 '26

Imagine if they had smartphones

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u/StoneheartedLady Jul 15 '26

They waddle out in front of cars enough as it is!

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u/MobileJob1521 Jul 14 '26

Well someone may have done that to you, but common pigeons are just wild rock doves living in cities. We didn’t make them that way.

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u/rviVal1 Jul 14 '26

Individuals yes. Species? No, I don't think so.

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u/Spring_Wanderer Jul 14 '26

Good on you for caring.

Happy to say it got away:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/s/TGfnwxVQkt

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u/RocketsandBeer Jul 14 '26

Be the pigeon won’t do that again

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u/enceladus007 Jul 14 '26

Uber Birds

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u/adorablefuzzykitten Jul 14 '26

Pigeons name was Darwin.

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u/suq_mudiq_aapa Jul 14 '26

That is one suicidal pigeon right there.

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u/Easy_Fortune7911 Jul 14 '26

The hawk be like:

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u/Lucius-Halthier Jul 14 '26

Falcon: oooh dinner AND a show? Suck it uber eats get your game up!

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u/Radialverdicht0r Jul 14 '26

I hope, the pigeon received a decent tip

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u/El_Peregrine Jul 14 '26

Cheers, Geoff. Dinner just served itself 

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u/Poor_ElonMusk Jul 14 '26

Imagine the conspiracy theories on falcon's head in that moment

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u/aSkeptiKitty Jul 14 '26

It reminds me an episode of Buffy where vampires ( Spike I think ) order pizza and when the delivery guy arrives he is in fact the real diner. 

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u/Posavec235 Jul 14 '26

It was not Spike, but Mr. Trick.

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u/Automatic-Put-6119 Jul 14 '26

Doesnt that make him a cannibal to some extend

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u/Samurijder Jul 14 '26

Walk in dinner

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u/petak86 Jul 14 '26

That was exactly my thought.

Looks like a peregrine falcon, they are specialized on birds.

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u/Guilty-Figure-4960 Jul 14 '26

Suicide by falcon 

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u/JacksonCorbett Jul 14 '26

Imagine a cow walks into your house while breast feeding a baby. That's Basically the equivalent of this.

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u/Sharp_Abies1355 Jul 14 '26

Service! Best delivery ever.

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u/richww2 Jul 14 '26

It's not delivery, it's DiPigeon.

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u/Historical-Ad3760 Jul 14 '26

How will I get my exercise?

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u/DenseRequirements Jul 14 '26

It's like how someone gave from the wrong adress and gave yours so the driver insisted the food is for you.

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u/brandon122096 Jul 14 '26

I thought it was plucking its feathers out and then was just gonna drop it to its death off the ledge

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u/Timazipan Jul 14 '26

DeliverCoo

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u/OrigamiMarie Jul 14 '26

Bro, are you really sure you want to do this? Well, okay then. If you insist.

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u/jory9988 Jul 14 '26

It chose the wrong spawn point. 😂

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u/Gojo_Satoru777 Jul 14 '26

Certainly put himself in a pigeonhole there

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u/ZealousidealStudy811 Jul 14 '26

exactly like ordering takeout without even opening the app

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u/Aceey101 Jul 14 '26

Exactly my thought lmao

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u/Weird-Abalone1381 Jul 14 '26

Falcon looking as "When did I ordered room service? .... Well, let's not let it go to waste"

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u/meldroc Jul 14 '26

That falcon: "Whoa, I don't remember ordering Grubhub, but since it's here..."

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u/YngviIsALouse Jul 14 '26

Did someone order wings?

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u/maeryclarity Jul 14 '26

Straight up the falcon's expression....and it's hard to get expression on a bird face they're not really built for it....but it's clear that it's processing like DID THIS LUNCH REALLY JUST WALK UP INTO MY NEST? HOW IS THIS HAPPENING??

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u/ExternalYouth5268 Jul 14 '26

It’s wild how divorced we are from nature regarding food, you know. Like, MAYBE I’d gut and fillet a fish that literally flopped into my lap if I was hungry? Any other living creature and I’m calling animal control or tossing it back outside.

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u/saltlampsandphotos Jul 14 '26

Guess the phones really do listen in, I just said I was getting snacky.

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u/bargu Jul 14 '26

It's not delivery, it's pidgiorno.

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u/Browley09 Jul 14 '26

The pigeon was ready to end it all and thought this was better than death by windshield. They were wrong.

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u/YeOldSpacePope Jul 14 '26

Considering that its being filmed, it was feeding time.

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u/MyRepresentation Jul 15 '26

'No way that's the shrimp!'

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u/NachoWindows Jul 15 '26

KFP - Kentucky Fried Pidgeon

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u/Original_Director483 Jul 15 '26

Well shit, okay, I could eat.

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u/Rantamplan Jul 15 '26

Did Somebody Say Just Eat?

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