Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Death of a pigeon
We were disturbed this morning by an appalling, tuneless racket right outside our bedroom window. Pulling open the curtains revealed half a dozen magpies not six feet away squabbllng over the bloody body of a dead pigeon on the flat roof. They flew off in a hurry leaving a well pecked corpse and loads of feathers. I wondered how the pigeon came to die there, did it just drop dead, was it attacked by a sparrow hawk or did the magpies do the deed? It certainly wasn't either a cat or a fox neither of which has ever been seen on our flat roof twenty feet above the ground.
Tags for Forum Posts: magpie, pigeon, predators?
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Permalink Reply by Jim Walsh on
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good question. with so many birds in the landscape where do they go when they die ? you never see them lying on the ground hardly ever. we need to be told.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mahoney on
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Where do they go when they die? The eternal question!
For the faithful, it really depends on their religion.
For the non-believers I expect it's Zams...
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I'd put money on a Magpie. Those corvid are carnivores and I once watched one disable a pigeon on HTH green and eat it
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