Why dont pigeons go in trees?
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They need straight sightlines.  Their periphal vision is atrocious.  Trees block their field of vision.
1005230
The flying that they do in those movies is an exaggeration of the truth.  There is a type of training that used to be done called "light-body" training, that starts when you're very young, like 3-4 years old.  There are many things they do, but one of the main things they focused on was keeping the spinal column soft.\n\nMost land mammals can't jump out of the water, like fish do, mostly because the spine has become hard/rigid.  At the same time some snakes can strike more than half they body length, because of their flexible body and a firm base.\n\nWhen people with this training would jump, they would "spring" with their legs and their spine giving them 2-3 times the height and 3-4 times the distance of the people without the training, that could only jump with their legs.\n\nEven doing this, couldn't make you "fly".  But, not unlike some monkeys and flying squirrels, if you simply bound, glide, and jump from point to point, through the woods/forest/jungle, going from object to object, it does give the appearance of "flying".  \n\nAnd YES, of course this could be done, very easily, through the city, running across roof tops, jumping an occasional alley way, and scaling larger buildings to "fly" from. \n\nBut, what goes up, most come down too.  Long story short, like Buzz Lightyear said "It's not flying, it's falling with style"
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i did a small unit in animal behaviour and physiology and from what i remember .. birds have a much narrower vision (acuity of vision) which enables them to detect preys for examples from large distances while flying .. thats all i know, it not ... mm .. that informative.. but i hope it helped .. lol
1175983
Birdhouses and trees?
922462
Because they have died from the main tree, and during autumn there are strong winds that usually blow them off. Normally into our garden!!
495628
Because these neighborhoods have very LARGE birds. And these birds eat humans in the middle of the night. They can digest everything but the shoes so when they are perching on those phone lines and they have to go pooh, out comes the white stuff... and the shoes.\nAnd they hang there because the laces get knotted up in their digestive tracts.
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Depends on the bird, but they settle down about nightfall and nest in trees, buildings, rooftops, bushes, and just about any other place of saftey they can find.  They work very hard at keeping their nests concealed, making them hard to find and they are often in places away from people. With some practace and a pair of binoculars, you'd be surprized how many nests you could find though.  Especially in the spring when the birds are flying back and forth to their nests to feed their chicks!
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The answer is they don't specifically, they die all over the place.\nIn most coastal towns you can find dead seagulls in gutters, on the pavement or even fried to power lines.\nThe bodies don't last long because crows and jackdaws eat them A seagull spends much of it's time at sea, ie where it's food is found under natural conditions and may die whilst it's out there.
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Some birds will fly away from their nests as a way to distract a threat. Or they will fly at a predator in an attempt to annoy them. If they're large enough or persistent enough, they may also use their beak or feet/talons to cause injury.
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Researchers have cracked the puzzle of how pigeons find their way home: they just follow the main roads.\n\nZoologists now believe the phrase "as the crow flies" no longer means the shortest most direct route between two points. They say it is likely that crows and other diurnal birds also choose AA-suggested routes, even though it makes their journeys longer.\n \nSome pigeons stick so rigidly to the roads that they even fly round roundabouts before choosing the exit to lead them back to their lofts.\n\nAnimal behaviouralists at Oxford University are stunned by their findings, which follow 10 years of research into homing pigeons. For the last 18 months they have used the latest global-positioning technology, allowing them to track the ground the birds covered to within one to four metres.\n\n"It really has knocked our research team sideways to find that after a decade-long international study, pigeons appear to ignore their inbuilt directional instincts and follow the road system," said Prof Tim Guilford, reader in animal behaviour at Oxford University's Department of Zoology.\n\n"For long-distance navigation and for birds doing a journey for the first time, they will use their inbuilt compasses and take sun and star bearings.\n\n"But once homing pigeons have flown a journey more than once, they home in on a habitual route home, much as we do when we are driving or walking home from work.\n\n"In short, it looks like it is mentally easier for a bird to fly down a road and then turn right. They are just making their journey as simple as possible".
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Judging by your use of the word "babies," it is apparent that you have elevated pigeons to a higher order on the grand scale of life.  Your motive is admirable and your heart is warm, but remember that nature takes care itself.  Everything has to eat.  It's been that way for a long time.  You should not try to interfere with the food chain.  Unless pigeons have been put on the endangered species list, I would just sit back and hope for the best.
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Some woods spark because they have other components in them.  Its not natural of course, but things get put in the wood by birds or bugs, as well as the components of the earth the tree grows in.
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We have quite a few escaped pet monkeys in FL. In the everglades there are some "hammocks" which have trees. While monkeys like fruit, they are omnivores as we are, so they would fish & eat other animals they could catch. They are also accomplished thieves, so if they are not caught by people, they will steal whatever they can from us.       As for the second part, they would evolve as we did. Primates can already communicate with sign language & teach it to others. We still have a coccyx (tail bone) We're not that different.
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It is hard-wired into their brains but the younger birds start out by following their parents south and if birds are taken out of the wild at a young age and have never migrated a small glider type plane can be flown the the birds will follow so it can be learned too.
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I'd have to guess their long necks, which enables them to eat leaves that are higher up on trees that can't be reached by other animals.
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Cardinals do not migrate, but individuals may wander over a widespread area.
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i watched a tv program on this about birds that swarm and its all to do with a few factors ie all the birds are equal distance apart for flying purposes . no bird wants to be on the outside of the swarm or flock due to predator that target such swarms "falcons". so if you can visualise a bird has to have a zone around it to fly and it don't want to be on the edge.when the bird  near it moves to the centre of the swarm to stop being on the edge.the new bird that's exposed whether it be from the side above or below that bird will then move to gain cover in the swarm.hence the shapes you get and the sudden change in direction of the swarm you see in the sky.there is a a computer graphic program that runs this formula but i don't were to tell you to go for this.