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Article: Pigeon power; A LITTLE RESPECT FOR THESE FEATHERED FRIENDS, PLEASE.(The Home Forum)(Kid Space)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 5, 1999
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Everyone knows about pigeons. Or at least they think they do. If you live in a city, you've seen them flocking in parks, posing on statues, fluttering above busy streets. In the country, they strut along barn roofs, scratch in fields, and perform amazing aerial feats to elude hawks and other predators. Other pigeons loiter at suburban bird feeders.
Wherever they live, pigeons don't attract much attention. They don't get much respect, either, but maybe they should. Did you know that:
*Pigeons see, hear, and feel things that humans cannot.
*They have an astonishing ability to find their way home across hundreds of miles. (They're so good at this, ...