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So, apart from the extensive roosts and nesting sites available to pigeons in towns and cities, how are the birds sustained?

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So, apart from the extensive roosts and nesting sites available to pigeons in towns and cities, how are the birds sustained?

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The common misconception is that pigeons are sustained on scraps of food courtesy of people littering, or people sharing their lunchtime sandwich in the park or as a result of poor housekeeping on the part of fast food restaurants. This is incorrect, at least in part. A vast majority of pigeons are sustained, almost exclusively, by deliberate and persistent feeding on the part of a small number of individuals, normally elderly or single people. These people will go out every day, 7 days a week, to feed their friends and will normally not only feed extremely high quality food such as grain and corn but also very large quantities of it. In the city of Melbourne, Australia, one gentleman arrives in the city centre each day, from the suburbs where he lives, and brings in 40 kilos of prime pigeon food which he proceeds to distribute at 4 highly sensitive locations within the central business district of the city. As a result there is a city centre flock numbering many thousands of pigeons w

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