By their 'breeding' efforts humans have changed our evolution and unwittingly helped to make us the ideal city dwellers of today.

NOWADAYS WOODPIGEONS CAN be found up to the tree-line in the Alps, the highest and most extensive mountain range in Europe.
Their original breeding habitat was the edges of old mixed pine and oak forest in central Europe.

'Woodpigeons' by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935).

Sorry but
will you still feed me
will you still need me
when it's Christmas Day?
#twelve_sleeps_to_Santa

Lisa Larson is a Swedish ceramic designer who began work at Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory in 1953.

Hey! .. drab is the new dressy!

'Study of sleeping pigeon', 1873.
Ferdinand von Wright (1822-1906) was a Finnish painter, with Scottish ancestry,w ho made many detailed depictions of birds.

INSIDE a 16th century pigeon tower at Esfahan #Iran
Birds are free to come and go as they please.
Capacity for 15,000 birds.
15 tons of droppings are collected for fertiliser every year.
Migratory as well as resident pigeons use this hotel.

I was kipping in a belfry just over the river in north london when a great bell-stroke dazzled my brain and and I flew out and spent the night under a wooden jetty on the Thames with the dark slick water moving beneath me.

stones gravel and scree
not tree
we are rock doves

concrete and brick
cold and slick
we are rock doves

Part of a series of Japanese studies of pigeons, from the 19th century Edo period, nowadays housed somewhere wihin the Smithsonian Institute.

Higashiōsaka City manhole cover, a fire hydrant. The central「ひ」character #fire is rendered as a pigeon #Japan
📷 via @maki7501 on 'X'

Ancient Roman garden fresco from the 'House of the Golden Bracelet’ #Pompeii #Vesuvius #AD79 #Italy
Painted onto damp plaster. The pigments fuse with the plaster to form a (very!) durable picture.

listen, do you want to know a secret ♫ ♪

hello humans say hello
and try to mean it

📷 @deepredsky