The most common birds in Russian cities are pigeons. They live where you can find food, people often feed them. But they are all about the same size. How to determine where the young are among them? What do little chicks look like?
If you can see chicks in flocks of sparrows, they differ in color and open their mouths towards the food, then there are no such obvious differences among pigeons. Where do pigeons hide their offspring?
Like other birds, pigeon chicks hatch from eggs. Babies appear mainly in the warm summer period.
A newly born pigeon is very different in appearance from its parents. Chicks are born blind and have no feathers at all. At the same time, they weigh about ten grams.
Adult pigeons feed their chicks for two to three weeks. During this time, the chicks grow feathers. Within a month after birth, the pigeons leave the parental home.
After the fledgling pigeons fly free, they do not differ much from the adults. Experts and those who are interested in the life of these birds can determine where the young are, and where are the representatives of the older generation.
Why don't chicks leave the nest earlier? The answer is simple. It takes time for the flight feathers to form, with the help of which the birds can fly. It just takes a month.
Where are the chicks until they are ready for adulthood? In the first weeks of life, babies are in the nests, where their parents take care of them.
In urban settings, nests can be found in abandoned buildings, in attics. Nests can also be formed in parks, if the branches of the trees are dense enough.
