This video explores the somewhat controversial of pigeons. Many people hate them while others enjoy their company. How did birds that helped win battles and rescued downed bomber crews become a hated enemy? This video attempts to answer some of those questions.

References for this video:
Merlin App for Android and iPhone https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
AllAboutBirrds.org, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
allaboutbirds.org/guide/RockPigeon/overview#
Sibley Field Guide to Birds West, David Allen Sibley
Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America, Rick Wright
Birds of Prey of the West, Field Guide by Stan Takiela
Field Guide to Birds, Western Region. National Audubon Society
Audubon.org Rock Pigeon
Birds of Southeast Arizona, Richard Taylor
Stokes Field Guide to Birds, Western Region. Donald and Lillian Stokes
Britanica.com Pigeon - Birds of Prey, Flight and Migration Patterns
“The Origins of Our Misguided Hatred for Pigeons”
Audubon.org News, Matt Soniak, Nov. 14, 2016
“The Pigeon That Saved a WW2 Bober Crew”
BBC News, Beb. 23, 2012
“How Pigeons Became Rats: the Cultural – Spatial Logic of Problem animals”
Colin Jerolmack, Oxford University Press, vol. 55, Nov 1, 2008
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