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Rock Pigeon Darren_Kelly_iStock

  • Learn about city pigeons, watch pigeons for science, learn cool facts, and increase your awareness of nature in your neighborhood.
  • Observe pigeons (It takes only a few minutes)
  • Find activities that combine the arts, learning about nature in your own neighborhood, and science
  • Participate on your own or with your group.
  • No knowledge of birds required!
  • It's easy and fun.
  •  Request PigeonWatch kits for free: posters to help you identify pigeon colors, data sheet and return envelope, resource guide and instructions booklet.

People participate by counting pigeons and recording courtship behaviors observed in their neighborhood pigeon flocks.  

Pigeon nesting on Pot_Susanne Ricci

Question of the month:
Why don't I ever see baby pigeons?

 

 


photo by Susanne Ricci

Learn more about PigeonWatch!

 
 
 
 

 What's New?

  • Learn about ornithologists and other staff at the Cornell Lab
    Katherine Smith Pigeon
    of Ornithology. How did you fall in love with birds? See short videos of people who chose careers that focus on birds and nature talking about how they first got hooked! Great for educators.
 
 
 

Help support Project PigeonWatch!
All materials are FREE so that everyone can participate. We rely on donations to support the project.Send donations to PigeonWatch, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850

 

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