Common pigeons Cesar disappear in big cities.

Pigeons and sparrows were expanse. With respect to pigeons strong was the old habit of keeping this useless bird for almost every home, prikarmlivaya corn and peas. Many homes were pigeon, in which lived and bred several pairs bred "or simple domestic pigeons. Recall that the word "dove", "dove", "darling" became words of endearment. Call the man Golubchik means to show respect to him tender feelings. Older people remember how even very shortly before the revolution in Moscow's Red Square we could see women with baskets of peas. For copper money at the request of passers-by throwing handfuls of peas on the ground, who immediately greedily eaten by a flock of pigeons. Thousands flock of hungry birds destroyed during the year a huge amount of grain products. Biologically pigeons, in any case very interesting. They feed the chicks separating the inner walls of his goiter and in this respect among the other birds occupy a special position. It's a kind of bird "Mammals", producing nutritious liquid for feeding offspring. The adage about "pigeon's milk" - to refer to some kind of impossible dreams - not fully retains its strength when we remember what a "bird's milk" really exists and you can get it from goiter pigeons during the breeding pores. Interesting qualities pigeons are speed of their flight, attachment to the time selected housing, an extraordinary memory for places, the ability to determine their position in space and to choose the right direction. These qualities have allowed to derive a special breed of "post" to send pigeons pigeon-mail. Males begin to coo, to care for females. They make the special movements, spread like a fan tail, walking about with bows in front of their girlfriends and otherwise express their attraction to him. It is believed that married couples in pigeons are connected for life. Chicks they take several times and it would be interesting to organize observations to establish the exact timing and number of egg masses throughout the year in these peri-domestic birds.