[kdlynn (OP)]

i saw a bird today and i thought it was a pigeon. my aunt and my grandma quickly told me that i was wrong and it was a brown dove... so... what's the difference?

[another_someone]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon

Pigeons and doves comprise the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, including some 300 species of near passerine birds. In general parlance the terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used somewhat interchangeably. In ornithological practice there is a tendency for "dove" to be used for smaller species and "pigeon" for larger ones, but this is in no way consistently applied, and historically the common names for these birds involve much variation between "dove" and "pigeon".

The species commonly referred to just as the "pigeon" is the feral Rock Pigeon, common in many cities.

[tony6789]

one likes to poop a lot too

[tony6789]

pidgeons i think

[another_someone]

I don't think they do it more than any other birds, except that when a bird is naturally reclusive, it tends to do it out of sight.

We have the same kind of problems with seagulls, as they are ever more present around human habitation (and beginning to move inland from the sea, as they find food as available in garbage tips as in the sea).

[moonfire]

Pidgeons are not faithful birdies, they are also conflictual...doves tend to be less conflictual

[kdlynn (OP)]

thanks so much guys!

[DoctorBeaver]

I know the difference.. me! Me!

You can say "I dove into the water" but not "I pigeon into the water"  []

[kdlynn (OP)]

lol

[moonfire]

I know the difference.. me! Me!

You can say "I dove into the water" but not "I pigeon into the water"  []

Only a beaver would say such a thing....are you in a separate lodge???  LOL

[DoctorBeaver]

I've been ostrich-cised  []

[moonfire]

LOL Leave to Beaver to try to be a dove....hey is that tail a fish?

[DoctorBeaver]

LOL Leave to Beaver to try to be a dove....hey is that tail a fish?

IT'S A SCOOP!!!  [!]

[moonfire]

I had no idea?

[DoctorBeaver]

I've told you plenty of times  []

[moonfire]

Oh, wow....you did?  It must have been the one exam I failed on and here I thought I knew so much about water rodents or is that roadents?

[DoctorBeaver]

Now you're being silly

[moonfire]

Well, I never....hmmph! :-)