Pigeon has been shot

Yet another terrified bird with a bad injury to her wing.  It looks like a pellet from a gun, why would anyone want to shoot her?  We’ve cleaned her up and given her medication, it’s a nasty wound and doubtful that she’ll ever fly again.

A lady found her lying on the floor in a wood, if she hadn’t brought her in straight away it’s doubtful that this little bird would have made it.

Birds go in to shock and often don’t survive because of this and not the injury.  We’re keeping her quiet and she’s warm, hopefully she’ll have something to eat and drink tomorrow and feel a bit better.

Pigeons are the most intelligent of birds, a team of researchers in New Zealand have shown how they can recognise words and read.  With 70% accuracy the four pigeons they were doing research on could distinguish dozens of words.   The brightest one could tell 60 words, this is the first time that a non-primate has been shown to have a brain that is able to recognise letters.   Bird brained?  No way.