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merge

There's a tag on this article and feral pigeon suggesting they be merged, however, there is no discussion of this on either page. I personally, am against. The Domestic pigeon aticle discusses mainly the uses of pigeons, while the feral pigeons article focuses on their interaction with humans and adaption to manmade enviroments. that seems like a good split to me. any thoughts? Michael1115 (talk) 18:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any discussion going on currently (see Talk:Rock Pigeon#merge with feral pigeon (2008, no support for merge) and Talk:Feral Pigeon#Splitting Rock Pigeon (2007, no consensus)), so I am removing the tag.--Brambleshire (talk) 17:36, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mention of Darwin's study of pigeons?

I am finally reading a copy of The Origin of Species^[1], and just reached a part early on where Darwin describes his extensive work with domestic pigeons in his study of variation under domestication. Although perhaps not commonly practiced at present, this seems like a noteworthy use of pigeons in research. Would it be worth including in this article? GeoMarxBMN (talk) 10:00, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I encourage you to add it! Calabax (talk) 10:13, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Charles Darwin (2003-09-02). The Origin of Species. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-451-52906-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Size and breeding

I noticed this article says nothing about the size of domestic pigeon, it also doesn't say anything about how many eggs they lay and I feel these are important things to have in an article about pigeons overall this article definitely needs to be expanded. It also dosn say anything about lifespan or clutch size.

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European history

What is their ancestral home? When did they reach Europe? 31.0.182.91 (talk) 10:14, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Low quality sources for Akbar's pigeons

Referring to the "coterie of thousands of pigeons" tidbit. There are three citations but one is an extremely low quality academic article and the other two are listicles. There's got to be a better (ideally primary) source if this is true Koszarsky (talk) 01:44, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bias

There is heavy bias in the article tone. One of the editors really hates pigeons 2601:602:8200:42D0:3C99:1012:99E6:1F26 (talk) 09:02, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The whole article is not written objectively at all. 2A02:C7C:7CA0:F300:1D1A:594A:13A4:944F (talk) 07:20, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[originofspecies-1] Charles Darwin (2003-09-02). The Origin of Species. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-451-52906-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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