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Illustration to a Bengali proverb ‘As like as two pigeons’. Watercolour and tin paint, Calcutta c1830; V & A Museum.

Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), closest living relative of the extinct Dodo. French illustration from 1950s.

A strong-flying Asian inter-island species which feeds on fallen fruit & seeds e.g. squirrel leftovers & seeds excreted by fruit-eating imperial pigeons

Dear Journal ..
Our feral pigeon populations recover rapidly from hawk predation .. someone's loft champions, though .. that's another matter :)

some of you young people might end up
living on the moon in giant glass igloos

no worries we'll be there too

‘Pigeons', 1955.
Photomontage by Harold Feinstein (American, 1931-2015).

'The White Crown Pigeon in the Cocoa Plum tree’; hand-coloured etching by Mark Catesby (1682-1749).
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Juvenile White-crowned Pigeon. Found on islands & coastlines around the Caribbean & Florida.
📷 Mikko Pyhälä.

Lithograph of a Wood Pigeon from John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain’; printed in sections 1862-1873. Two versions are shown, to emphasise the ‘hand-coloured’ aspect of these early publications, with sets of pages possibly tinted by different craftspeople.

Dear Journal ..
Some pigeons live ‘on the wrong side of the window’ in a human household
Myself I prefer to walk on the wild side
Who wants to sit on a sofa and watch TV all the time?

Dear Journal ..
I had a dream
I was in Charles Darwin's aviary
with other birds

they were pigeons alright
but all rather odd.

Suddenly the man himself came out
making clucking noises..
I couldn't blend in
I'm too drab.

He didn't mind though
He was on the sherry.

Dear Journal ..
Another day done in the land of blind windows and pitiless pavements
We got fed by a lady who looked very ill .. she leaned on a stick and seemed to like us

I’ll keep an eye out for her tomorrow