What type of food will pigeons usually exploit?
Pigeons have learned to exploit multiple food sources and although their natural diet would be made up of seeds and grains (when in season) they will exploit just about any food available to them including fast food refuse, bread, household scraps and even worms and insects when there is little or no other food available. As previously mentioned, however, deliberate feeding is the main source of food for urban flocks of pigeons. The other common food sources are food preparation outlets, retail food outlets, granaries, ports where foodstuffs are imported/exported and grain silos. Pigeons rarely, if ever, feed in rural areas, exploiting crops in fields, but when food is in short supply in urban areas some birds may resort to exploiting this food source. When flocks of pigeons are seen feeding in agricultural areas these birds are most likely to be domesticated racing pigeons and not their feral cousins. Pigeon Control So, we know that pigeons need very little food in order to survive, b
