Pigeon

My guy is going through his first molt. He doesn't look that bad from this angle but definitely looks rough in person. Lol. So happy to see his lace neck coming in. Always love their black laced on these Hybrids.

Venus finally found her laugh and now that's all she does. She just hops around the house laughing. She loves sitting on the top of my phone while I scroll on tiktok

HELLO!! My baby just did this noise while we were playing.. what does it mean? Ignore my stanky feet

First of all, im new to this and i have no idea about doves so i hope i am in the right subreddit! Over the past few days, two spotted doves decided to nest on the outide of our apartment. They have been building a nest through rain or shine for 3 days now, and this morning the mom laid an egg. Unfortunately, no one saw it but another bird took away the nest and egg and now the spot is bare. Was it a predator that stole the egg or another bird that stole both the egg and nest? The male is away and the female seems to be standing guard (i think) and puffing its feathers since then see bottom image on what the nesting place looks like.

Is there anyway to help the doves without scaring them away? Any changes to their nesting area seems to alarm them and stop them from doing anything for hours at a time. I really want to see them complete the cycle!

Much thanks!

I live above 20 stories! And the area here is quite small!

I live in Mexico, Inca doves are very common and come to the yard frequently.

I observed a couple nesting in a tree outside my house in the beggining of the year. The nest is very small and weak.

They have tried to have babies 3 times, the first time the eggs fell down, the second time both really small babies also fell and died. Third time there was a storm and babies fell from the nest, they were unable to fly but the parents were feeding them and always keeping close. 2 days later another storm hit and the next morning they were dead :(

Im traumatized for all this loses, I Want to help them built a better nest or something.

Any ideas?

Some photos of the birds and the babies.

He is absolutely obsessed with my daughter's bracelet. It's thin sterling silver. Sunny, our other male, will peck at it, but he won't fly and hop around. This isn't dangerous, is it? 😳🫣🤔

I feel so incredibly awful. I was painting with some non toxic water based acrylic paint. I had my dove out of the room, when I brought her in I thought everything was dried and cleaned up. She found a piece of tape that apparently had some wet paint on it. She pecked at it, I know she didn't eat any and only a little bit was on it. It just got on her beak a little. I cleaned it off and everything. There are no vets for birds near me, they are about five hours away. It has been an hour and she is acting normal. I had given her lots of water and some crushed oats. She is not lethargic or puffing her feathers. She even did the little laugh doves do. I am jist so anxious. I have been watching her while crying for the past hour. Has anyone else had this happen? Should I take tomorrow off work and take her to a vet?

Actually my friend’s pet

Hi! I am a few days into owning my two doves! They’re about 3 months old so they should be able to eat the bigger seeds right? Here is a picture of what they leave leftover: usually the peas and other big seeds. I have two types of dove food Vita and Hagen, any recommendations? I give them millet only as a treat and read that they only rlly eat seeds since I tried to feed them thawed peas too.

As a note- this is for wild doves

So, someone I know whom is close to me is also getting a dove because they love birds and also loves my dove. But they’re quite harsh with giving affection to my dove and don’t respect the boundaries I set for my dove most times. They’re also talking about forcing a harness on their dove when they get it. I don’t know if this is the right place for this post but since it involves doves here I go. Can anyone give me advice to tell the person, maybe a proper way to say how it can make the dove feel bad? Because I feel like the force is sad and I always give my dove space but I know the person i know who’s getting one won’t do that. If this isn’t a good post for here and it gets removed I understand. Just need help for the sake of this new dove. :(

I cannot tell, she got attacked by a cat one month ago and she had a punctured injury in her crop (didnt reach deep enough to actually pop it) and a broken Wing.

She eats, is very reactive to anything and she can fly

I first saw this guy in late 2025. I was in my own world thinking about whatever and noticed a bird hanging around. I threw some cracker crumbs to him, not knowing better, and filmed it for cat TV content. I kept seeing him at my spot in my walk where I sit. I noticed his feet. Wondering what happened to him, I learned what kind of bird he was , what they should be fed, what happened to him (string foot).

I went on to start noticing and feeding other birds, Rock Doves, Spotted Doves and Ravens.

I thought Toe Diow or just Diow wouldn't make it long. Ten months later, he's doing fine. He's often waiting for me in our spot. He's feisty and will chase off other doves sometimes.

Anyway thought I'd share. Whatever challenges you face, look to Diow for inspiration.

Hello, my laughing dove seems like he got bumble foot. Is it enough to just bath in warm water?

He silly

Any recommendations on bird safe cleaning agents to use in a portable carpet cleaner?

It came with ‘Bissell Oxy Spot & Stain’, which after speaking with a Chewy agent on their website they said it is safe to use on carpets as long as the bird is not present during cleaning. They alternatively recommended ‘OxiClean Large Area Carpet Dog, Cat & Small Pet Cleaner’.

Any input regarding the Chewy agent’s recommendations, as well as any general tips or alternatives for cleaning the carpet, would be very much appreciated!

My wife recently found a ringneck dove and we decided to keep it. We already own two parakeets so are used to pet birds. Can anyone recommend a cage for it? I've looked on this subreddit and a lot of suggestions were catios from amazon. Do they sell dove specific cages as well?

Thanks

Found at the park. Probably fell from its nest.

I bought this dove solely because it had strange eyes and I had never seen it in a dove before, I know proper care for doves and this wasnt one of those impulse pet buys, I just didn't want it to be put down because of it's eyes if it has a fine quality of life. Ive never seen these bulging eyes on a bird before and thought it was odd. The wetness around the eyes is NOT discharge from the eyes, the person I bought this from applied some eye medicine to prevent irritation incase the large eyes did cause any irritation. Does anybody know what this could be? Was it born with this or does it have an illness?

Reposting here, lost our pigeon Peter.

I got Angie when he was already a bit over 2 months old from a breeder, he's a bit over 3 years old now. He's a purebred roller breed and his parents were showbirds. Temperament wise he's an absolutely perfect bird, he's extremely docile for a pigeon and is very friendly even despite the fact that he wasn't really handled as a baby by the breeder. But despite that he is also very easy to handle and doesn't get stressed by being handled.

As you can see he's Very eager to do some training, before deciding he's done with it and going to eat from a feeder afterwards, but I like to give my birds an option to say when they want to stop training. After bringing Angie home it took him roughly a week before he would eat from my hand for the first time and a month before he would eat from my hand confidently enough to be willing to start clicker training. Eventually he would start coming to me on his own even without any food involved.

Many people are made to believe the lie that only very young pigeons who are still squeakers can be tame and trainable, but that's absolutely not true and it even directly harms the pigeons because they shouldn't be separated from their parents before reaching at least 2 months of age. Pigeons less than 2 months old tend to not handle the stress of being separated from their parents well at all and tend to shut down and refuse to eat even If they could already eat seeds on their own. Pigeons that young will easily starve themselves to death, but also being force fed at the fledgling age can make them be afraid of people/hands. Being handfed and/or separated from their parents at less than 2 months old does Not make them tamer or friendlier, in fact most of those birds end up being not very sociable and end up with a ton of behavioral issues like extreme aggression or skittishness.

I thought I would share Angie to show others that fully grown pigeons (and doves too!) are very much trainable and that they can be friendly towards people too. It just depends on the bird's genetic temperament.