A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching write by Rosemary Mosco. This book was released on 2021-10-26. A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, readers can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts illustrated field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk). Anatomy and identification, from Birmingham Roller to the American Giant Runt to the Scandaroon. Birder issues, like what to do if you find a baby pigeon stranded in the park. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we’ve taught them—Ping-Pong, for example. “Rats with wings?” Think again. Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.
Pigeons and Doves
Pigeons and Doves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pigeons and Doves write by David Gibbs. This book was released on 2010-06-30. Pigeons and Doves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is dedicated to the field identification of pigeons and doves, and it incorporates much recent information on the family. Pigeons and doves are a large family of birds occurring throughout the world. Many species are specialist frugivores, while others feed on seeds. Most are arboral and the tropical species in particular are often brightly coloured. The family includes gregarious migratory species, as well as shy, ground-dwelling forms such as the exotic crowned pigeons of New Guinea.
The Pigeon Guide
The Pigeon Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pigeon Guide write by Shannon Hiatt. This book was released on 2000. The Pigeon Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pigeon Passion
Pigeon Passion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pigeon Passion write by Elliott Lang. This book was released on 2010. Pigeon Passion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The must-have guide for anyone passionate about keeping, breeding or racing pigeons." -- Cover
Superdove
Superdove - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Superdove write by Courtney Humphries. This book was released on 2008-08-12. Superdove available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came to dominate our urban public spaces. While detailing this evolution, Humphries introduces us to synanthropy: The concept that animals can become dependent on humans without ceasing to be wild; they can adapt to the cityscape as if it were a field or a forest. Superdove simultaneously explores the pigeon's cultural transformation, from its life in the dovecotes of ancient Egypt to its service in the trenches of World War I, to its feats within the pigeon-racing societies of today. While the dove is traditionally recognized as a symbol of peace, the pigeon has long inspired a different sort of fetishistic devotion from breeders, eaters, and artists—and from those who recognized and exploited the pigeon's astounding abilities. Because of their fecundity, pigeons were symbols of fertility associated with Aphrodite, while their keen ability to find their way home made them ideal messengers and even pilots. Their usefulness largely forgotten, today's pigeons have become as ubiquitous and reviled as rats. But Superdove reveals something more surprising: By using pigeons for our own purposes, we humans have changed their evolution. And in doing so, we have helped make pigeons the ideal city dwellers they are today. In the tradition of Rats, the book that made its namesake rodents famous, Superdove is the fascinating story of the pigeon's journey from the wild to the city—the home they'll never leave.
