Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) Checking surrounding whilst foraging. Rather than feed their young insects, pigeons feed them a milk formed from sloughing off fluid-filled cells in the crop lining and is more nutritious than human or cow's milk.
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Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) Checking surrounding whilst foraging.
Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) Checking surrounding whilst foraging. Rather than feed their young insects, pigeons feed them a milk formed from sloughing off fluid-filled cells in the crop lining and is more nutritious than human or cow's milk.

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Date: 12 May 2010
Location: Blackpool Lancashire, North West UK
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