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notably pigeons are feral and I absolutely was thinking the same thing here going off the headline.

I guess we don't need to rewrite the stones song though.

I think I might disagree, I would absolutely love there to be a rerecording where Mick Jagger croons that feral pigeons couldn't drag him away

In my understanding feral is a domesticated creature that has found it self adapting back to the wild, while a wild creature was never domesticated at all. How can pigeons be feral?

Pigeons are domesticated doves. Humans have used them for meat and, if memory serves, communication for a long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_pigeon

Some pigeons are domesticated doves, the kind of pigeons you see in town.

Wood pigeons are wild and distinctly different from town pigeons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wood_pigeon

There are over 300 pigeon/dove species, and nearly all of these are wild and have never been domesticated.

However, when people say "pigeon" without specifying a particular species, they are almost always referring to feral rock doves (Columba livia domestica) commonly found in urban environments all over the world.

Multiple types of Pigeons(/doves) have been domesticated through history. The pigeons most people are familiar with in big cities are feral domesticated rock doves.

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