To think it is impossible to kill a pigeon and that they have the power of teleportation

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To start with, I don’t want to kill a pigeon nor do I wish them any ill will. However, I’ve come to the conclusion they are invulnerable and may also be able to teleport.

I have just watched a pigeon on a tram track as the tram approached. The tram was literally bearing down on said pigeon. Then, suddenly, the pigeon was a few feet away, totally unperturbed. It may have physically moved but if it did, it was imperceptible to the human eye.

This is consistent with the number of times I think I’ve almost definitely hit a pigeon (accidentally) in my car, only to see it unharmed in the middle of the road, pecking away, in the rear view mirror.

Someone needs to investigate this, ASAP.

They may be ok with moving objects, but not so much when they are the moving object.
The number of times we've had pigeons fly into our windows or patio doors and knock themselves out is unbelievable. Unfortunately, several have not regained consciousness.

Pigeons have poor eyesight (which is why stuff gets very close to them before they react) but excellent reactions (which is why they rarely get hit).

They're fast, but the amount of half pigeons and feathers scattered around near where I live suggests they're not fast enough to avoid the local peregrine falcons.

Pigeons aren't real, the deep state murdered them all years ago and replaced them with drones. Every pigeon is in fact a small robot that is programmed to watch you.

I have definitely seen pigeons squashed onto the road, one wing still forlornly waving in the wind while the rest is just flat. After a while another pigeon will come and start tucking into the remains.

I saw a pigeon get run over and killed in a multi-storey car park on one of the ramps. An electric car suddenly came round the corner and the pigeon mustn't have heard it 😞

The number of times we've had pigeons fly into our windows or patio doors and knock themselves out is unbelievable. Unfortunately, several have not regained consciousness.

You need window decals. I've put some up after a sparrow met a very sad, and unfortunately not quick, ending a few weeks ago.

The circle of life.

Don’t tell the Daily Mail, they’ll do an article on EVs killing the wildlife.

I hit a pigeon with my car....I didn't mean to obviously. It must have been a slow one. I felt awful

I mean, that os actually what happened: a wild bird was killed because of an EV

Years ago I was sitting in an upper room of our Victorian terraced house with the sash window at the back of the room wide open from the top and the sash window at the front closed. Just beyond the back window there is an elder tree in our neighbour's garden. It was laden with berries, which the pigeons love. One of the pigeons was disturbed by some sort of noise and flew straight out of the tree into the room through the open window, very fast. I had time to register that this was happening and to wonder what on earth I was going to do and then it had flown straight through the closed window at the front, at full speed, which I now appreciate is considerable. The noise of the glass shattering was extraordinary. People outside stopped and were looking around to see what on earth it was. I rushed outside to see what had happened to the pigeon, but it was nowhere to be seen, so I have to conclude it flew off unharmed, or at any rate got some distance away before succumbing to concussion. We had a big round hole in the window. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't bird-shaped.

I never, ever leave that window wide open now.

One fell down our chimney. I heard a faint fluttering noise that I didn't recognise just before we went away for a week. On our return there was plaintive cooing, so we donned the gardening gloves, opened the damper and lifted the somewhat resilient pigeon onto the back lawn.

We gave him a saucer of water and he began to perk up. At that time, another pigeon appeared. The second pigeon was both loud and indignant, possibly making reference to nights spent in the Nest Of Another. They seemed to reconcile, and often appeared together after that.

So yes, resilient. A week without food and water is pretty good survival. I still feel guilty that I didn't recognise the noise before we went away.

Same here. Every week a pigeon flies out of the woods and straight into one of our windows. Lots of them don't recover.

Same here. Every week a pigeon flies out of the woods and straight into one of our windows. Lots of them don't recover.

As I've said to the previous poster - window stickers if it's happening a lot:
https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/gifts-home/gifts-home-offers/window-stickers-multi-buy-offer

I ran over a pigeon last week - I couldn't swerve or stop without causing an accident and it just sat there.

Well, I've had to have 3 of them shot off my roof the other week, so they do die.

But they're buggers for sure.

Creepy ones at that. I learned that the female lays eggs in the still warm body of a recently hacked to death (by another male) pigeon male to help keep the eggs safe.

I do see them on the road squished BUT far far more escape certain death. Wood pigeons are so slow and bumbling but when I'm watching they always fly at the last second. I'm sure they can move sideways!

It's almost like you've stuck a great big invisible pigeon killer in their way

Pigeons actually experience time more slowly than we do, which is why it looks like to us they are leaving it to the last minute when they get out of the way of a moving object, whereas to them they still have loads of time. They are actually quite clever little creatures.

I have actually run over a pigeon with my car 😢

I was approaching a roundabout from a 60mph road and I slowed down obviously, but couldn't stop due to a car being right behind me. A pigeon was standing in the middle of the road a few metres before the roundabout and I ran it over. I felt the car hit it and I saw it was squashed on the road on my return journey. I think it happened in 1996.