Kurze Vorgeschichte zum Stadttauben Päppelkurs
A Brief Background on the City Pigeon Hand-Rearing Course
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Since moving, I have been visiting the Aidenbachstrasse bus terminal almost every day. While doing so, I noticed a brooding pigeon behind some damaged netting. I reported so that her eggs could be swapped for plaster replicas, thereby keeping the urban pigeon population under control in a humane manner. When nothing happened, I contacted additional authorities—unfortunately, also without success. By now, two chicks have hatched; they will reach sexual maturity in six months and reproduce approximately 10 to 12 times per year (thanks to a selectively bred compulsion to breed), always laying two eggs per clutch! Once hatched, they are condemned to a slow death by starvation! For aside from a concrete desert, they find absolutely nothing to eat there.
If a 14-million-euro project—namely, the hydrogen pipeline—can be stalled because of a single European hamster (see here), then surely it should be possible to provide humane care for urban pigeons. For they are NOT wild animals (nor do they interbreed with them); rather, they are feral domestic animals (specifically ceremonial, homing, and racing pigeons) that were abandoned and therefore fall under the scope of animal welfare laws. To deepen my knowledge about urban pigeons, I enrolled in a course on rehabilitating them, see the next page of the peepart diary.