You dont need to travel to experience the joy of birdwatching just take a look at the pigeons in your nearby park! With this fun, quirky, and scientifically correct field guide to the most common bird in most cities, youll learn to see pigeons and doves (theyre the same thing) with a birdwatchers expertise, understanding their fascinating behaviour and appreciating nature right outside your window. Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Fact Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. Weve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our cropsand 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 behaviour 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 weve taught themPingPong, 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 birdlover, science communicator,...

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: Workman Publishing; Classification: PSVW6; Weight: 404 g; Dimensions: 136 x 264 x 17

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