Pigeons Attacking Pigeon Name: Jon C. When I was on a trip not
too long ago, I was sitting outside at a cafe and noticed a
pigeon sitting and not moving. Several children were trying to
pick it up, but it would waddle away a few feet and return to
rest. Finally, the children left it alone and the rest of the
pigeons began to pursue and indeed attack this lame pigeon. As
it got nearer to me I noticed it was bleeding where the wing met
the body near the neck and it was missing a good deal of
feathers down its back. What would give a flock of pigeons cause
to attack another? I cannot find any specific reference for this
behavior among pigeons, but the same sort of thing has been
widely reported among domestic chickens, in which it appears to
be the end result of the "peck order" among close groups of
birds. A dominant bird can peck any other bird in the flock,
next in the dominance order can peck all the others, and so on,
so that a bird at the bottom of the hierarchy can be pecked by
any other bird but peck non