From Messengers to Misfits

The poorly understood pigeon…

Rosa Diaz-Casal
Change Your Mind Change Your Life
3 min readMay 4, 2024

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Photo by Townsend Walton

I recently read a post about someone who grew up in New England where they have pigeons. I’ve never been a “bird person” and, apparently, they also hate them.

Most of my life, I’ve heard people say bad things about pigeons — that they are dirty, spreaders of disease, and often referred to as “rats with wings”.

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