How can I protect baby pigeons from predators which are nesting in a tree with their mother?
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err it's not an endangered species\ndon't try to mess with evolution
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I am not certain what you mean, but if you are asking about their breeding and nesting details, Here goes:\n\nWhoopers usually build a nest in marshes or shallow ponds, in about 25 cm of water (the flightless chicks can swim to escape predators) and most often in relatively dense stands of bulrush. \n\nA pair usually has two eggs. Both eggs generally hatch, but if both eggs are left in the nest, usually only one chick survives. The reason for this may be related to a food shortage, particularly when wet areas begin to dry out and terrestrial predators, such as the gray wolf, are able to penetrate the cranes' nesting marshes.\n\nThe incubation period is 29� 30 days, and both parents share the task of incubating the eggs in the nest. Few eggs are lost to predators thanks, in part, to the vigil of the adult birds. The reddish orange young hatch during the last week in May or the first week in June. From then on, the parents are kept busy feeding their chicks. During the summer, the cranes rarely fly. Some birds may be incapable of flight during short periods due to the molt of major wing feathers.\n\nFamily groups frequent the shallows of small ponds and marshes, where the adults perhaps find larval forms of insects such as dragonflies, damselflies, and mayflies, and also snails, small clams, water beetles, leeches, frogs, and small fish to feed their young. When the parent birds kill larger prey, such as snakes, mice, small birds, ducklings, and even birds up to the size of half-grown bitterns, they share the spoils of these hunts with their young.\n\nBy the end of September or early October the young birds are ready to try their wings on the 4000 km migration to the Texas winter range. On the way south, the birds spend one to five weeks feeding in their staging (stopover) areas in Saskatchewan. In these areas, undisturbed whoopers may spend the entire one- to five-week staging period on the same quarter or half-section of land. Here the birds fatten up on waste barley and wheat in stubble fields, and roost during the night in nearby wetlands.
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Sometimes they can't afford to take care of it (they can't bring enough food to allow the chick's survival).  Othertimes they are stressed, or think for some reason the egg is 'bad', ie the chick is not alive any longer.  It's pretty common.  If the mother gets spooked, she will abandon the nest.
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There isn't really much you can do to keep the wasps from building the nest in the first place.  If there is a sheltered overhang that provides an ideal nest site, then wasps will be attracted to that site.\n\nIf you remove or kill off a nest, as long as you get the queen, then that particular group of wasps is done.  They won't be building a new nest anywhere, since their reproductive potential is gone.  If one nest is removed and wasps are still building, then it is a totally new set of wasps moving in.\n\nGetting a nest early, when it is still small and the queen is still busy producing eggs that will become worker wasps is much easier than dealing with a large, mature nest.\n\nWith a small nest, one of the easiest ways to get rid of a nest is to burn it.  Simply hold a wad of paper with BBQ tongs, light the paper on fire and hold it under the nest.  The paper nest will burn quickly and cleanly.  Make sure you have a fire extinguisher handy in case the fire spreads though.\n\nThere are also a number of commercial products, such as wasp bombs and sprays that are very effective.  If you use them at night when all the workers are resting in the hive, they will be even more effective.  If you use a light to illuminate the hive during this operation, make sure it is placed on the ground or an object several feet away from any people.  If wasps exit the hive during the spraying, they will fly toward the light.  Anyone holding the flashlight is unlikely to find this a pleasant experience.\n\nOne of the bonuses with using the spray on a wasp nest is that the (now dead) nest is still physically intact.  This prevents any other wasps from using that site to build their nest.  That's probably the best way to deter wasps from returning to re-build a nest.
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Yep, her instincts will compel her to check up on her offspring after enough time to assure her that the crisis has resolved itself one way or another.\n\nMost birds produce more offspring than can survive in a properly balanced environment so their survival behaviors favor the preservation of the hard to replace adult over the readily replaced offspring. Assuming they aren't built for fighting off the threat, or not crazy aggressive, like blue jays.
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There are wild pigeons; they are called rock doves, though I sometimes think 'concrete doves' would be a better name.
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I think it depends on the type of bird you are talking about and also if the birds are wild or domestic or for that matter used to having humans around.\nLarge birds generally dont scare so easily, especially if they are used to humans. Like parrots for example.\nSome many times I have come across pigeons just crossing the road leisurely even though I'm driving towards it. And some of them dont even fly until I honk at them.\nThe tiny birds generally scare more easily. But when I traveled to London the sparrows actually fed from the palm of my hand. Whereas I have 2 finches at home and although they think they are humans, they just dont let me touch them! LOL! I love them alot!
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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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Some owls, like the eagle owl, will attack if you go near their nests with young. As they have heavy talons and a sharp beak they can be pretty dangerous.
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Try throwing some dog food (it's like ice cream to peacocks) to a place away from your house (or wherever it is you don't want them).  Or try putting some rubber snakes around outside- birds are scared of snakes and I think this might work for your peacocks as well.
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It sounds like the robins nest was victimized by a mocking bird.  \n\nMocking birds will knock eggs out of nests in order to make it their own.  If the robin caught the mocking bird in the act there would have been an altercation.  \n\nIf a robin's eggs become under suspect in anyway, then the robin will abandon the eggs.\n\nIf you are able to get the egg to hatch taking care of a baby bird is a 60 minute an hour, 24 hour a day, 7 days a week project.  \n\nIf you have heated the egg to the point where it is "very hot" then the egg is most likely dead.  It should normally be just a little warmer than room temperature.  (About 85-90 degrees air temperature.)
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Add red coloring.\n\nIt IS necessary, and it DOES NOT harm the birds.
383122
make like a tree and let them perch...
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turn off the lights in your garden....\n\n\n\nor hunt at night near grassy places....\n\n\n\n\nthen bring a black net........use it on them
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I suggest you just let them be ! The crows warn most birds that there is a preditor around by squeeling,In my yard they live in harmony ! with the yellow finch,cardinals,sparrows,and many more birds!
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Each has it's own methods.\nSurprisingly undergrowth and thick forest provide excellent cover. I have seen pigeons tough it out by hunkering down in a flat field, but suspect that is just the normal sleeping behaviour.\nAny creature that has it's own territory will have it's own safe places (holes, nests, caves, thick bushes, etc.), migrant species may move out of the danger area.
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Baby's are come from the stork.