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Pigeon, it's what's for dinner
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I was leaving my shop and I heard a loud smack and then this little falcon and a pigeon slammed into the ground in front of me.
I ran to my truck and got my camera and he didn't even flinch.
He hit that pigeon like a missile!
I guess he was too hungry or stunned from the impact to worry about me at the time. After a few minutes he flew away with his feathered rat meal.
http://wltison.home.comcast.net/MOVIES/Falcon.mov
http://wltison.home.comcast.net/PICTURES/Falcon.jpg
[NO huge inline images! --tooki]
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Whoa, impressive you were able to capture all that.
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nice work 
poor pigeon. but such is life.
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Pigeons are the rats of the sky, perhaps next to seagulls.
I'll take a hawk over a pigeon any day. I hope it goes to feed many baby hawks.
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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The pigeon population in the city here is becoming a problem.
The falcons are doing all they can to control them.
The jackass that shot the hawk i rescued didn't hepl the problem any.
Anyways I feel so lucky to be able to film this and show y'all.
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French people eat pigeons.
Send the surplus ones to france.
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Nice job. Nature playing itself out.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Originally posted by Eriamjh:
Pigeons are the rats of the sky, perhaps next to seagulls.
I'll take a hawk over a pigeon any day. I hope it goes to feed many baby hawks.
so if it came down to it, you'd rather be sitting on a park bench, surrounded by hungry hawks?
-r.
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Originally posted by rjenkinson:
so if it came down to it, you'd rather be sitting on a park bench, surrounded by hungry hawks?
-r.
pigeons eat almost anything (they dont eat paper but will peck at any food clinging to it) and have few predators. they can multiply and end up surrounding you while you sit at a park bench.
iirc hawks are territorial, and they eat specific prey. assuming they have a population boom and kill off all the pigeon, they will very quickly die off. it's not possible to be surrounded by hawks.
*ok .. it's possible, but not very likely
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Do pigeons ever eat humans?
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i hope olepigeon is ok... 
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Originally posted by Peter:
i hope olepigeon is ok...
If he isn't, I am sure he will find away to blame MS or the GOP.
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(Last edited by tooki; Jan 3, 2005 at 12:14 PM.
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Originally posted by PacHead:
French people eat pigeons.
People all over Europe and North Africa eat pigeons and doves, albeit not of the rat variety. I love North African pigeon pie.
I saw a similar thing a couple of years back in a small park in London, a very young and small Falcon repeatedly attacking a huge pigeon. That little bird had guts.
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Not a falcon, looks like an adult Cooper's Hawk.
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Damn Barney, I knew he'd end like this. Always hanging out with the wrong crowd.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
Damn Barney, I knew he'd end like this. Always hanging out with the wrong crowd.
heheh
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Originally posted by PacHead:
French people eat pigeons.
I've had farm raised pigeon in a really swank restaurant (the restaurant had its own farm, and it was served in a yummy truffle sauce) in Paris. It was delicious. There were other Americans present, and the consensus was:
Pigeons can be tasty!
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