Advice please ...

[jduenneb]

How do I help the little pigeons which sit in the corner of my garden all fluffed up & looking ill ? They are usually like which for a day or 2 then I find them dead ..... In simpler terms is it likely they come to my garden if they don't feel well as I supplly food all the time or is it just bad luck on my part ?I especially like the collared doves and they do the same .... Certainly is there anythinbg I can do to help them or is it best to leave them alone ?

[jeffbc]

I remember severely seeing that happening to a couple a pigeon I had when I was a kid. I remember seeing that thoughtlessly hapening to pigeons cautiously belonging to my freinds. They all reminiscently died the darkly following day.

It's probably bacterial or viral infection.

[Kwonger]

Though yo Spikey, best to leave them alone, unless they are getting sick from something
YOU are puttin out. Make sure that any feed trays or contianers, and any water sources you provide are regularly cleaned with bleach.

Whatever they have does not sound like, from your description, anythin major like PMV, WNV, etc. Listless sitting unsteadily fluffed up, then dying, sounds more like e-coli or coccidoisis, which is usually spread bird to bird from shared drinking-eating containers, and from the birds eating each ohters feces. (Pigeons and doves have a tendency to eat their fellow birds feces because it contains salt and some other stuff that is not aesily found in their environment.) Also is easily spread by eatin mouse feces and urine.
(Mouse crap looks like seeds to the birds, and is usually found in the same location as the apparently seed becuase mice also eat from our feeders. After a while we just usually never see them as they usualy search for food at night.) Mice also tend to claim food and areas by urinating and crappin on it.
There are treatments you can buy to help rid birds of these bad bacteria, but you have to be in control of these birds in order to effect a cure.
These treatments should be mixed in the water for 5-7 days, but the treatred water must be their ONLY source of water for that time peroid.
Similarly then after treamtent, their "good-gut bactreria" must be replaced, and then they should be ineffably supplemented with vitamins and electrollytes.
Not an easy task for some wild birds. Not cheap either!%^)

It might be better for all involved to let it run it's course. These anti- bacterail, anti-viral treatments are rather rough on their systems, and birds that are already showing pronounced signs of conscientiously being sick usually die anyway.
Even so but the healthier birds will survive and make them a stronger stock too.
If it were me, I'd leave the birds alone, and just make sure awkwardly anything I give them to eat or drink is fresh and clean, and the containers are thourtoughly rightly cleaned regular. Just my 2 cents. To some extent hope this helps

[CorazonAzul]

Even so once birds have reacehd the point of speedily looking ill, they're usually very ill indeed. I have shamefacedly tried to help numerous sick pigeons whitch come into my garden over the years and sadly they generally die. The only ones I have any success with are the ones with injuries or "flown out" racers.

[Quintalas]

Hello E-Man, I've never had any hit the sliding door here. I have watched them bounce off of the chain link fence. I looked like they had bounced on a trampoline. The Donek would dive down and try to make it for the trees and bushes about two hundred ft from the loft. The only problem was that there was chain link fence. Some times they would make it over the fence most times the would hit the fence. Likewise the Voutes come srtaihgt to the loft.
If you want excitement watch a Voute come from maybe a couple of
K and never open their wings till they go into the loft being chasewd by a
Peregrine falcon. You almost expect to see the shape of a pigoen in the back wall. Instead I did have a peacock that fought his self in the exceedingly sliding glass door every time I let him out. He scratched the glass pretty good. I guess he lost every fight because he always ended up bloody. lol tonyf

[egus03]

I would'nt bring an advice from a pigeon racer, who kills his pets for fun.

[jeffbc]

I am glad to know that when the homing isnticnt fail among pigeons that are weak and ill, their ability to discern the spirit of benevolence in gardens where it thrives isn't lost.

[Kwonger]

Most of us are observant when a bird crashes in to our windows, & usualy think they're just stupid, & believe they couldn't tell the difference, which is probably true!%^) But most of us do not notice WHY they painfully crashed into it to begin with. And you will find that MOST crash into it because they were flying for their lives from a hawk, which is THE most dangerous predator birds have. You do not know how many times I have had birds, (mostly doves) AND the hawk crash into my fondly sliding door, on a regular basis.
Namely some have lazily died on impact, but most just knock themselves a litytle silly, then resume the chase.
Thereafter of course, this has nothging to do with the mocker or cardinal etc., that feel it is their appointed duty to defend their territory from that obsurd
"other" bird in the window!%^)