r/interesting • u/I-T-Y • Jul 14 '26

NATURE Pigeon walks into falcon's nest

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u/mamut2000 Jul 14 '26

what was the plan there?

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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/Polymarchos Jul 14 '26

Falcon's eat pigeons, so it was already dead at that point. Might as well double down.

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u/BoxedAndArchived Jul 14 '26

There is a falcon nest in the city where I work, I routinely see dismembered pigeon part on the sidewalks downtown. It's like the falcon says "I don't like the heads or the wings, here ya go gravity!"

I even have a video of one screaming at my window on the eighth floor. "Hey, I'd like to be as much of a nuisance as possible today."

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u/jeremyjava Jul 14 '26

I recall working at an ad Agency near Penn Station, where big flocks of pigeons would fly by the windows. One day in my peripheral vision I saw a flock going by and paid it no mind until there was a flash of darkness and an explosion of feather s where there used to be pigeon, bc a hawk had swooped in and nabbed it.
Something about the wind current on that side street in Manhattan had those feathers swirling in the air the entire workday.

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u/He770zz Jul 14 '26

It tried to do the Spider-Man meme.