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Part of a series of Japanese studies of pigeons, from the 19th century Edo period, nowadays housed somewhere wihin the Smithsonian Institute.

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Fonte Gaia, Piazza del Campo #Siena #Tuscany #Italy

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just hanging with the other flockers

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Down the chimney but rescued! Woodies only have one expression but ALWAYS appropriate.

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3 years

nostalgie de l’automne

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SCIENCE .. in pigeons brain temperature needs to be maintained below body temperature .. in long flight air rushing past the eyes helps cool the brain .. on a scorching day in Naples just stick yer bonce under a fountain

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3 years

.. just hanging with the other flockers ..

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7 months

Pigeons together are not a flash-mob of vermin. We are bird-life sharing your neighbourhood.

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'Blue Pigeons’. Kōno Bairei (1844-1895) was born and lived in Kyoto #Japan

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‘Pigeons’, 1997 by Kathryn Spence; made with street trash, wire, string and rubber bands.

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Part of a series of Japanese studies of pigeons, from the 19th century Edo period, nowadays housed somewhere wihin the Smithsonian Institute.

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2 years

How to do the splits in a week or less ..

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‘Two Doves’; Ogata Gekko (Japanese, 1859-1920).

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2 months

Umm .. can you piss off?

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10 months

classic line up

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4 months

📷 PIGEON NOIR @Pigeons_Of_NY #June2016

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7 months

I'll be your mirror Reflect what you are in case you don't know ♪♫ 📷 José Bento.

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'Two Doves’. Japanese Hanging Scroll.

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3 years

Japanese designer Kyoto Ohata made these shoes to walk in the park among the pigeons

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2 months

Luzon Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica) aka Bleeding-heart Pigeon .. dramatically marked, still pigeon-like. Its French name 'Gallicolombe poignardée' evokes a fencing wound to the breast. A bird of Luzon, Polillo, and Catanduanes .. three islands in the Philippines.

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1 year

📷 José Bento #repost #August2020 Marechal Carmona Park #Cascais #Portugal

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1 year

The Fonte Gaia is a monumental fountain located in the Piazza del Campo in the centre of Siena #Tuscany #Italy

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2 months

#pitstop_pigeon touched down in in meme-land

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I'll be your mirror Reflect what you are in case you don't know ♪♫ 📷 José Bento.

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7 months

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura). Blendon Woods, Columbus #Ohio 📷 Tim Daniel.

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5 months

📷 Karol Griffiths @KarolGriffs #December2017 Speaking of pigeons, look who I shared my train with today. Berlin is very pigeon friendly.

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6 months

Ceramic pigeons by Glo Coalson. Raku fired with a subtle ombré of pink and blue. Ombré is the blending of one colour hue to another.

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5 months

if you've got it flaunt it

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1 year

Australia has many pigeon species, among them the shy, exclusively ground-foraging east coast Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca).

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8 months

just the two of us we can make it if we try

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6 months

Slate grey on top, Luzon Bleeding Hearts are iridescent and seem purple, royal blue, or bottle-green in various lights. As well as the 'wounded breast' stain, they have areas of more prosaic pigeon plumage. Found on Luzon, Polillo and Catanduanes .. three islands #Philippines

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📷 Lucy Cooke @mslucycooke #March2015 I met a pigeon on the tube .. Central Line much quicker than flying apparently

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3 months

‘Pigeons & cherry blossoms’ Ohara Shoson (Japanese, 1877-1945) Woodblock print.

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8 months

Acorns are a distinctive nut often found on the ground where oak trees grow. They are smooth, greenish, and set in a rough brown base shaped like a little cup. The acorn contains a seed, able to sprout roots and grow over time into a big old oak tree. Not this one though.

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8 months

Wooden carved pigeon with tail raised

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木彫りしっぽ上げもち鳩

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Pigeon matchbox designs from Czechoslovakia and India.

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3 years

📷 Tower RNLI @TowerRNLI #River_Thames #lifeboat_station Whilst having breakfast one of the crew saw a bird drowning by the station. We launched & rescued the little dude. After some rehabilitation it dried off and flew away #wonderful

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This Woodie will be checking the sky all around while drinking. Pigeons have near panoramic vision only twenty degrees short of the full circle, and they simultaneously focus on the near and far ..

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the feet you cannot ignore #beautiful

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3 months

Spare a thought for us tucked up under the railway bridge overnight

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6 months

📷 mos @msuwandh #September2020 Pink-necked Green-pigeon family (Treron vernans) #birdsinbackyards #Jakarta #Java #Indonesia

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we've got the wings but we walk a lot

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8 years

MT @audubonsociety Andrew Garn's pigeon portraits:

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3 months

More of these please.

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4 months

When two pigeons are in one pigeonhole, they may be pushing past conflict and challenges and working on communication, trust, and intimacy

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From a series ‘Homing Pigeons in Flight’, by photographer David Stephenson.

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PIGEON table lamps, 1991 Edition of 900. Patinated bronze, patinated copper, opaline glass. By artist duo Claude Lalanne (1925-2019) and her husband François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008). These lamps can fetch $27,000 at auction.

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7 months

listen, do you want to know a secret ♫ ♪

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6 months

If you are building please leave holes for birds If you design buildings design in holes for birds Lots of different birds can roost, rest and nest in brickholes Don’t design birds out, design birds in

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this land was made for you and me ♫♪

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1 year

Emma McClure 'Wood Pigeons in the Ivy'

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6 months

babes let's walk away from Christmas and look forward to Spring

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7 months

From a collection of 118 ornithological studies of pigeons, from the 19th century Edo period #Japan [Smithsonian]

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PHOTOBOMB CORNER Photobombing in the world of books

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‘Three pigeons and falling cherry blossom’ Koson* (Japanese, 1877-1945). *friend and colleague of Ernest Fenollosa #culturepigeon

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4 months

can I just have one more moondance with you, my love ♫♪

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Whidbey Island #Puget_Sound #Washington_State #USA 📷 David Welton.

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8 months

tis the season of floof

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10 months

Did someone say shake a tail feather?

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'Pigeons On The Roof’. Joseph Crawhall (1861–1913), painter of birds and animals. Born Morpeth #Northumberland

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African Green-pigeon (Treron calvus) #Gambia #WestAfrica 📷 Burama Keita @BuramaKeita #October2016

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1 year

Just flying past a Peregrine, as you do.

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4 months

'Flower and Dove' Japanese Hanging Scroll

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bit cramped to be fair

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1 year

this land was made for you and me ♫♪

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'Here we are again, happy as can be ♫ ♪ Blessington Street Basin #Dublin .. an old drinking water reservoir .. became a public park in 1994 📷 Tony Finn @tonyfinn #October2018

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We know exactly where we hope to roost tonight. So we're off, as the light begins to fall, to stake our claim. We compete for food, and we often find ourselves competing for a night roost.

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PIGEONS DISTINGUISH between each other, and familiarity/unfamiliarity is a factor in social interplay. They are more comfortable with some pigeons than with others.

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I fully merit your indifference Deirdre But still I happy am to be but next to you.

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1 year

📷 Pigeon TV .. and now our Paris correspondent reports on the stories behind the headlines .. .. okay we’ll try again later

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babes let's walk away from winter and say hello to Spring

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Yellow-footed Green-Pigeon (Treron phoenicopterus) keeping an eagle eye on the camera #India 📷 Sathiish Rao.

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listen very carefully I shall say this only once

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1 year

'Two Pigeons sitting between falling Cherry Blossoms' Woodblock print by Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945).

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📷 mos @msuwandh #September2020 Pink-necked Green-pigeon family (Treron vernans) #birdsinbackyards #Jakarta #Java #Indonesia

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📷 Victor Fernando R. Ocampo @VictorOcampo #July2021 We have babies! The eggs of the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans) nesting on our balcony garden have finally hatched. In the Philippines we call this bird 'punay'.

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A baby pepper inside a bell pepper has grown without fertilisation and will produce no seeds. Though perfectly edible, it seems a little irregular in shape. In fact it is weirdly reminiscent of the Cloven-feathered Dove of New Caledonia #South_Pacific I think so.

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Check out white toenails only on the left foot

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If two in one pigeonhole perhaps pushing past distance and diffidence and finding friendliness trust and intimacy

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'Pigeon Show' by Kate Fryer, Leeds-born, died aged 106 in 2017.

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The Yellow-footed Green-pigeon is hard to see - usually high in the trees - but is a common resident of Delhi City #FeetsFriday

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A street art pigeon in Camden Town #London

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Those of you towards the back Need to face the front And pay attention I'm not here To talk to myself.

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Narcissus loved his reflection, couldn’t leave the pool, and starved. Not likely in this case. 📷 @BakkerHansb01

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3 years

did someone say seeds?

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📷 Salvador Savé. Urban Wood Pigeons at L'Escala #Catalonia #Spain via Pere Alzina @BeyondBCN #April2020

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Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913) was an English artist born in Morpeth, Northumberland. Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland.

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📷 Brian Lilly @brglilly #February2019 Cinnamon Ground-dove (Gallicolumba rufigula) sat in the sun at Newquay Zoo #Cornwall @NewquayZoo A bird of New Guinea & nearby small islands. In the wild known to take fruit & seeds discarded or passed by Birds of Paradise #wastenotwantnot

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'The Dove', 2018 Daniel Mille (Belarus). Patinated bronze. Limited edition of 15.

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We *can* go on meeting like this

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this makes a nice picture

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Blessed is the person who looks after a pigeon, because the pigeon will pray for that person. A likely story. Here is a prayer ticket, or good luck love charm, from a Japanese shrine. Bonne nuit du pays des oiseaux.

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ahem .. got any spare seeds?

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.. the hectic lines are blood vessels in a pigeon’s head and neck. CT image by veterinarian Scott Echols. “.. scanned at 100 microns, so you are seeing a fraction of the vessels that are there,” he says. “If we were to scan it in greater detail you’d see even finer vessels.”

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Argyle Street Glasgow Are you alive to red feet On the wet pavement

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