Pigeon at work: This guy/gal showed up right by my office door. I took enough shots to get the numbers off the rings on the leg. But I don't know who to try and contacted to see if it...

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

This guy/gal showed up right by my office door. I took enough shots to get the numbers off the rings on the leg. But I don't know who to try and contacted to see if it is lost. It is still here today. Any ideas. Very pretty looking bird tho.
Erv

ftpecktim Loc: MONTANA

Nice shots Erv.
This may or may not help.
http://www.pigeonweb.net/pigeon-found-what-to-do-if-you-find-a-lost-pigeon

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Thanks Tim. I am going to send off an email. I will see if I can catch him before I go home:) Was real friendly yesterday. I have a small cage I can put him in for the night.
Erv

jeanbug35 Loc: Jonesboro AR

Nice shots of a beautiful bird.

Carolina Wings Loc: Flew from North Carolina to Pennsylvania

Erv wrote:

This guy/gal showed up right by my office door. I took enough shots to get the numbers off the rings on the leg. But I don't know who to try and contacted to see if it is lost. It is still here today. Any ideas. Very pretty looking bird tho.
Erv

Nice captures Erv :-D

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

Nice Pics Erv, I think the band on their leg are from a tagging operation some where. When you find a dead one of these birds, who ever did the tagging wants you to contact them and let them know where you found the bird, something to do with checking their range on where they live.
Don't feed them!!
Swede

colo43 Loc: Eastern Plains of Colorado

My father used to have some, he would take them a distance and release them, wait them to fly home, once they learned their home bearings they are ready for further training. He would then take them to my uncles some 40 miles from home and release them, wait for them to return to our home. over a period of time he would send my uncle messages in the leg band and my uncle would reply via the same way and send the bird back to us.

if they become lost or disorientated for what ever reason, they will wait for the sun and regroup their thoughts before taking flight again.
My Dad is no longer alive for me to ask him about it, but this is what i recall as a youth.
If I have misstated something please correct me.

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

This one has been at work for 2 days. I got him in a little cage and put him in the shop. It is getting cold out at night. I stopped and got pigeon feed from TSC. If I don't get an answer to the email, I will try feeding him a little tomorrow. I put the Numbers on Google too, but no hits. I might have a new friend for Sammy.:)
Erv
Just kidding.:)

colo43 Loc: Eastern Plains of Colorado

Erv wrote:

This one has been at work for 2 days. I got him in a little cage and put him in the shop. It is getting cold out at night. I stopped and got pigeon feed from TSC. If I don't get an answer to the email, I will try feeding him a little tomorrow. I put the Numbers on Google too, but no hits. I might have a new friend for Sammy.:)
Erv
Just kidding.:)

Can he move his wings Erv ? possible he flew into something and injured one of them. 2 days seems like its a long time to be sitting there and not flying off. Has it been gloomy- over cast?

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

He flies around good. He goes up on the roof, but comes back down and stays around the pine tree by my door. He walked right in the little cage I had. And I was standing right there talking to him.
Erv

colo43 Loc: Eastern Plains of Colorado

He is surely owned by someone, he knows the routine.
I hope you get an email stating as such and they will make arrangements to pick him up.
I hate to see lost animals and its great you chose to help the poor thing out.

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

You might have yourself a new friend. My daughter had a pet pigeon once that used to follow us around outside and would hang on the screens and look in the windows going from room to room until he found us. I think that was the first and probably only pigeon that I cried over when he was hit by a truck. We still have the holes in our screens from that bird. He looked a lot like your bird. Here are a couple shots of him with my then 11 year old daughter hope you don't mind my sharing my pigeon story with you.

colo43 Loc: Eastern Plains of Colorado

Very nice story Judy.
Photos as well. I can imagine it was indeed a heart breaker, not to often that we can form a friendship with them.
Erv may just have a new friend as well.

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Always feel free to add to my posts Judy!! I think of all of you on my buddy list as friends, good friends!! And that is a great story and pictures. But not a happy ending. I have a very soft heart, and it hurts just hearing that. Pets are the worst to loose.
Erv

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

colo43 wrote:

Very nice story Judy.
Photos as well. I can imagine it was indeed a heart breaker, not to often that we can form a friendship with them.
Erv may just have a new friend as well.

Everyone loved that bird except maybe my husband when he was putting holes in the screens by hanging on them. We always got a good laugh when he would swoop out of nowhere and land on an unsuspecting quests head. He would go and sit on the goats while the girls were milking some of them didn't like it but most of them got used to him. Hopefully Erv's bird will be half as much fun as ours was.