why you don't see baby pigeons!

[Kyryyn_Lyyh]

Pidgeons are so sweet. Such an underrated animal.

[thatxdamnxgirl]

Bless their hearts. Pigeons actually produce a "milk" that helps these babies grow so fast.

[zeyzey]

They look like tiny dragons, so cute!

[Enrommie]

“They’re so ugly”
They’re so god damn cute

[CloudESkies]

The relaxed face of love they had when you rubbed them is everything.

[catapultking]

Can definitely see that ancestral resemblance to Dodo’s when they’re young.

[oopstags]

I’ve got Mourning Doves growing in a hanging plantar on my roof. Our record is the babies hatching in ONE WEEK and leaving in TWO. It’s amazing how fast they are

[bigmanpounder]

just had a horrible depressive period last night and this video popped up on my shorts when i woke up. i never knew how much i needed to know how cute a baby pigeon looks growing up

[motherlandbot]

They grow more slowly than the nestlings of many songbirds. Baby Rock Pigeons are usually hidden in nests positioned in recesses, cavities, or abandoned rooms and attics in buildings. Most people don't recognize their high pitched squealing calls (which are very soft in neonates) for what they are, while most people recognize the much more frequently uttered contact and begging calls of baby songbirds.

Parent Pigeons brood their young until the latter are relatively advanced in development. The parents take turns brooding them, just as they take turns incubating their eggs. They feed their young relatively large meals at infrequent intervals compared to songbirds. Nestling Pigeons have a capacious crop (the lower portion of their gullet) that can and does store these large feedings as the food is slowly passed to the 2 stomachs (the proventricus and the gizzard). The nestlings (squabs) remain quiet and concealed under their brooding parent between feedings when they are young. Older squabs spend time chewing off the casings from their growing pinfeathers and in wing flapping exercise, but are inconspicuous even at this age. They do not utter the persistent contact calls of older nesting House Sparrows, Common Starlings, American Robins, etc either before or after they leave their nest. Parent Pigeons approaching their offspring for feedings elict excited squealing and wing flapping from these, but this stops as soon as they are fully fed.

Domestication has favored the selection of hundreds of color, pattern, and plumage mutations among domesticatic Rock Pigeons that have persisted among urban feral populations. In the wild, mutant colors and patterns among Rock Pigeons are selected out by predators such as hawks, owls, and nocturnal mammals. Neonate domestic and feral squabs are often much more conspicuous than those of true wild Rock Pigeons (light colored and white domestic and feral Pigeons are pale pink as neonates, with light straw yellow natal down, while wild Rock Pigeon squabs have dark gray skin). Thr juvenile plumage on most domestic Pigeons is duller and less conspicuous than that which they will have as adults. Juvenile Pigeons also have gray legs, feet, and cere, and usually dark irises (a feature that some domestic and feral Pigeons retain as adults), versus the bright pink legs and feet, bright white cere, and orange to red irises of an adult.

Charles Darwin stated that if domestic Pigeons of different breeds interbreed, their successive generations will increasingly resemble their wild ancestor. This is only partly true, because the checker pattern of domestic and feral Pigeons is dominant over the ancestral bar pattern, and melanistic and dark gray plumage colors are often dominant over the ancestral slate blue. Additionally, melanistic Pigeons are less conspicuous to visually oriented predators, and are often more vigorous and resilient than white or pale Pigeons. In a flock of wild Rock Pigeons, individuals differing from the local version of the ancestral "blue bar" color and pattern are targeted by predators. In most flocks of ferals, dark checkers and melanistic birds predominate, and blue bars and other paler birds are selected out by predators. These ecologically favored melanistic Pigeons also tend to produce less conspicuous nestlings. Where Darwin was correct was that mixed breed Pigeons tend to revert to ancestral morphology (which does not affect the visibility of their babies). The heavy bills and ceres of Racing Homers, and the short or tiny bills of many fancy Pigeons, along with feathered feet, fantails, frilled plumage, etc of domestic birds quickly disappear after a few generations of feral existence. Even so, feral Pigeons are often a bit slimmer and less compact in shape than true wild Rock Pigeons.

As you would gather from this lengthy comment, I'm a lifelong Pigeon keeper and rehabber. In that time, I've seen MANY baby Pigeons, even though I limit the enthusiastic reproduction of my own birds!

[RoyKusuo]

the pigeon really took "They grow so fast" to a whole another level💀

[amikawa]

Once wild pigeons lend eggs on my balcony and i saw baby pigeons grow up they were so cute i hope they live happy and peacefully

[catalyst]

That sounds like what the robot birds would want us to think.

[Snow_creature]

I once had baby pigeons too. They grew up really fast but one dat our neighbor came to our house and said that one of the two got ran over by a car😢. Later we moved to a different house and we couldn’t find our pigeons. They flew away. But when we were driving to our new house I looked out the window and saw them all sitting on a building❣️ it was like they were saying goodbye

[babypool]

This song, with 2 featherless baby birds... brings back memories of my dad

[roccosalvino]

Those are baby chickens, pigeons are government spies

[justacarnerd]

When i was in 4-5th grade, many pigeons used to nest on our big spacious windows. There were three that nested and five that we heleped grow up

[hotaruishere]

They have the knobbiest little beakies until they're all the way grown up 😂😂😂😂😂💖💖

[btsfan]

I have seen baby pigeons in real life and they were so cute. They kept pecking at the glass whenever I put my finger to it

[vacafuega]

Omg they're so I love adult pigeons too, they have such lovely little voices.

[williamunderhill]

Pigeons actually aren't pigeons, they are Rock Doves. "Pigeon" comes from the latin "pipio", which means "small cheeping bird". This is due to the cheeps the squabs (bebbe pijins) make :)