Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes.
Now, with The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, readers can rediscover the wonder.
Equal parts illustrated field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior:
- Why they coo;
- how they flock;
- how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously);
- and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk).
Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon’s image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.