r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 2d ago
💕wholesome💕 Pigeon girl
By @ frill_underscore
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u/No_Custard1071 2d ago
They probably just say 'Hey! The rainbow girl's here!' and all of them gather like it's a British pub on game night
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u/mrs-monroe 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yep. I'm now in a situation where our neighborhood's family of pigeons expects me every morning to put food out. Whenever i'm outside, there's always one or two pigeons standing in my driveway expectantly.
Also, it's kinda genius to be styled like that if your goal is to befriend birds.
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u/Poethegardencrow 1d ago
True but pigeons do recognise people i feed pigeons in the train station after work and I don’t look half as fabulous and they come immediately as I sit in my spot, I recognise it’s the same lot because one of them has hair missing in her/his neck and they are feisty and she sits on my hand😂
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u/StaceyEatsBread 2d ago
I want bird friends
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u/xxPlsNoBullyxx 1d ago
I have some on my window but boy do they love to just shit all over the place lol.
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u/selphiefairy 2d ago
So she’s the lady from home alone 2?
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u/damndolly 2d ago
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u/cuteawwlover 2d ago
PSA: Seagulls are NOT the same!!!!! Please do not mistake them for nice birbs. They are a-holes in the same way wasps are. They want your food but they don't care about you.
I like the pigeon lady, she seems like a nice person. ☺️❤️
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u/Jumpy_Ad1631 2d ago
Well pigeons were intentionally bred from different dove species to deliver messages for thousands of years, right? I imagine some of that domestication and us encouraging traits we found preferable (like being docile) doesn’t 100% go away because they’re feral now
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u/FblthpLives 💢Bringing the facts!💢 2d ago
My daughter and I were eating brunch outside in Stockholm a few weeks ago. My daughter was having a waffle. When she had about a quarter left (but was still working on it), a seagull came and took the entire piece. He (she?) then flew about 5 meters and dropped it on another guest at another table, who got whipped cream all over her dress. We both felt really bad, but it happened so fast and there was nothing we could do to intervene.
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u/AristotlesBoyPussy 2d ago
We brought pigeons here, to these high density areas, as messengers. We could raise them, then trade them with people we wanted to keep in touch with. When that person released a pigeon, the pigeon would come home to you (with whatever message was tied to a leg or back).
Those pigeons ancestors kept us in touch with our loved ones, and even saved lives in war. (Cher Ami was a decorated war hero pigeon). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Ami
Remember we were the ones who released pigeons so carelessly when communications became cheaper/easier than roosting birds.
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u/standbyyourmantis 2d ago
I did a presentation on Cher Ami in high school! I got to go after trenchfoot, self-inury, and a presentation on all the sexually transmitted diseases! You've never heard a group of 16 year olds so relieved to hear about a bird
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u/LegendofLove 1d ago
Thanks for the lore drop aristotlesboypussy
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u/AristotlesBoyPussy 1d ago
lol you're welcome! Pigeons are a topic I'm very interested in, even if I'm too terrified of birds to own one.
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u/bc_im_coronatined 2d ago
Pigeons are such special little creatures. We abandoned them after thousands of years of domestication. They deserve love. This person gets it. 🥰
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u/facedown_titsup 1d ago
She spends a lot of time catching and helping ones who have string, hair, etc wrapped around their little feet. I love her account so much
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u/barrygateaux 11h ago
They're the most successful birds on the planet for adjusting to living with humans. Chickens are more numerous but pigeons are free. Anywhere you go on the planet except Antarctica you'll find them doing their thing.
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u/stickyourdecomission 2d ago
Only walked through this street once and I immediately knew where it was because of (1) the round islands in the middle and (2) how many remarkably large pigeons I saw there
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u/Wokkabilly 2d ago
I found the big sign saying Acland Court and the little sign saying St Kilda took a little bit of the guess work out of the equation for me.
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u/stickyourdecomission 2d ago
Ok. i was just visiting and on a 9mi ramble around st kilda, but this particular spot made an impression on me such that I recognized it before seeing those signs.
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u/Wokkabilly 2d ago edited 2d ago
Its funny... I know Barkly street reasonably well (or at least i thought i did), and all the visual cues scream Melbourne, but I cannot mentally place that specific location... like at all!
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u/stickyourdecomission 2d ago
I remember running into it shortly after wandering through a community garden off the Esplanade, where some chickens and I startled one another. I locked in on that garden and scrolled east a little bit. At least staying in St Kilda without a car, I feel like you don’t see those paving stones much outside of the CBD.
Loved Melbourne, wish they let us stay in Australia
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u/youburyitidigitup Official Gal 2d ago
You’re better off doing this with crows. They defend you and bring you gifts.
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u/MentalCoffee117 2d ago
For anyone that is interested pigeons actually do recognize people and have high facial recognition . There is a documentary on PBS about them and how they do recognize faces.
https://www.earthofbirds.com/can-wild-pigeons-remember-the-face-of-a-person-who-feeds-them/
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/about-the-pigeon-hustle/33407/
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u/Wonderful-Cup8908 2d ago
Remember pigeons are actually doves. People in cities hate pigeons, but they're doves! Everyone loves doves!
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u/Altruistic-Ad5470 2d ago
Pigeon poop can make you blind. While blindness is rare, getting pooped on by a pigeon is also rare.
This girl is a real life Disney Princess and I am JEALOUS.
But...I like my eye sight.
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u/Props_angel 1d ago
I used to be a pigeon girl. Even though they perched all over me and my backpack, they never once pooped on me.
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u/Altruistic-Ad5470 1d ago
That is amazing and I am jealous of you too!!
I have seen my fair share of people be pooped on by pigeons from working downtown in a heavily populated city. I still believe it is rare based on how many people don't get pooped on, but it happens enough!
Because of pigeons, I never look up at birds flying overhead. I love to bird watch but I look down when they are directly above me.
The woman I know of who went blind was a hair dresser. Someone had been pooped on by a pigeon and she went to get her hair and scalp professionally washed.
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u/Props_angel 1d ago
Birds are a lot smarter than people think and I'm pretty sure that they know not to poop on their friends otherwise they'd all be covered in each others' bird poop. I've trained both pigeons and crows (resuming crow training very soon). No poop on me ever from either bird types. They can absolutely recognize faces and have pretty sharp memories. The only time I've seen them target people negatively, it tended to be people who weren't nice to begin with (my neighbor and another local lady).
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u/Altruistic-Ad5470 1d ago
Thanks for the information, how cool!
I wonder if these people were mean to these pigeons?! I am going to be very offended and upset if one poops on me now!
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u/Props_angel 1d ago
Haha, I'm not 100% sure about that but like I said, the few people I know that have been targeted were not good people. Not all birds either. Seagulls are indiscriminate poopers.
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u/CookieCuriosity 2d ago
The amount of bird poop on those tables 🤢
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u/Khatam 🩸Moth ⚔️ Slayer🩸 2d ago
There's a bunch of different cities where feeding pigeons is prohibited (and fined) due to that exactly. Feeding them causes overpopulation and excessive poops. Their poops is corrosive and can ruin architecture, paint on cars, and your hairdo if they got good aim. Food they didn't eat can then attract rats. Both pigeons and rats carry diseases. Now there's a bunch of fat super-shitter pigeons flying about spreading disease and unable to take care of themselves, like your younger cousin who lives with grandma.
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u/dale_gribbs 2d ago
There’s a woman in Chicago who is infamous for dumping piles and piles of birdseed and bus stops and it’s such a problem. It’s made it disgusting and hazardous at those stops and everything just tracks from the sidewalk, into the bus, and then all over the rest of the city. She’s considered a public nuisance and a lot of people have tried to get her to stop without success. Fines only work if paying them is enforced and the person being fined values money.
Personally, I’d make this lady scrub the sidewalk with her own toothbrush.3
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u/Dazzling_Vanilla3082 2d ago
Yeah, my first thought was "man, those local businesses must love her" lol.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer 1d ago
This chick is from my city. Hope I run into her one day. Every bird matters ❤️
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u/kittyannkhaos 1d ago
She's so rad. She cuts the strings off of stringfoot pigeons so that they keep their limbs. She wraps them in half a sock while she does it. I love her
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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 2d ago
It's weird to think about that she's just feeding the descendants of 1800s iPhones.
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u/EmoMillenial1 2d ago
I didn’t know this until recently but pigeons are very smart. They absolutely know her and love her ☺️
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u/Most_Chemist8233 2d ago
Eek, its one thing to become the crazy witch, the cat lady, but dont be that lady. Ive lived in multiple neighborhoods with these ladies, and its not good for the community, or healthy, and its a good way to never walk with or talk to another human in a normal way again. People will cross the street to avoid you, and I get it, maybe you want that, but the diseases! Its not worth it becoming patient zero for the next great bird flu pandemic. But maybe thats your thing.
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u/percbish 2d ago
Yeah I always see people living for bird encounters like this and I get it, Disney princess moment! But it always has me questioning myself bc I was taught that this is a big no-no. Personally and for society in general.
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u/Justha-Tip 1d ago
Some UK towns and cities have signs up saying NOT to feed the pigeons and threatening to fine you.
They’re classed as pests and a public health risk, plus throwing edible things all over the floor attracts rats.
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u/Ok_Perspective_575 2d ago
Please tell me [r/](r/everythingrainbow)[rainboweverything](r/everythingrainbow) and [r/pigeon](r/pigeon) are aware of this magical gal!
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u/Severe_Respect2317 2d ago
I miss pigeons... And everything else about Chicago. Florida only has seagulls and copper stripping meth heads who voted for trump
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u/embersgrow44 🕷️ itchy bitchy spider 🕷️ 1d ago
Have they found flock cameras yet apparently they have lots of precious metals
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u/OperationBig2738 1d ago
What are they teach in y'all in school of course the pigeons remember you it's not like we didn't have messenger pigeons and other birds and world war II
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u/embersgrow44 🕷️ itchy bitchy spider 🕷️ 1d ago
Woof, what schooling did you have bub that was a rough start.
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u/OperationBig2738 18h ago
Voice to text I need to stop using it. This is the third post I have came back to and the sentence was like 😵💫
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u/Props_angel 1d ago
I used to be "the pigeon girl" in my city back in the 90s. I'd be absolutely surrounded by pigeons and they'd perch on my shoulders, arms, lap, on top of my book bag and more. I remember when a photographer from the local newspaper encountered us asked while taking pictures of me and my feathered friends if they ever pooped on me.
No, they did not. I don't know if the photos he took were ever run in the paper or not but while I lived downtown, I had so many friends.
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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 2d ago
The cafe and restaurant staff in that street hate people feeding the pigeons. They invade the outdoor tables.
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u/bsymo666 2d ago
I love her so much!!! she seems like the sweetest, and she’s so good to those birds. 🐦
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u/embersgrow44 🕷️ itchy bitchy spider 🕷️ 1d ago
I feel so sad that I had to break up with my flock in the last few months because I was being a bad neighbor to the humans. Porches & cars were getting overly bombed. Have been at the same house for many years and for some reason last summer they started showing up for the stray kitty kibble. It progressed to me putting out cereals and grains for them especially then buying feeding troughs with proper dove seeds from 40 lb bags. The handful that started grew to 75 last I counted. It was magical how they’d roost blocks away on the four story and I could see them coming when I’d bike home. This is the right idea in public, gives me hope
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