Wild pigeons, their specifications, types, and hunting methods
Wild pigeons are among the most famous types of pigeons known to man since ancient times. This type of pigeon is famous for its love of isolation from crowded places and prefers to live in remote, deserted places. Today, through our website, we learn about the specifications, types and methods of hunting wild pigeons.
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Wild pigeon specifications
The wild pigeon is similar in its external characteristics to some types of homing pigeons, which makes novice breeders confused about differentiating between homing pigeons and wild pigeons, and the following are the most important characteristics and specifications that characterize wild pigeons.
The wild pigeon is distinguished by its small size compared to the rest of the other types of pigeons. It also has a sharp, long, thin and solid black beak. As for its feathers, it is light blue in color. At the end of its tail and wings there is a transverse black stripe. On the top of its back (in pure pigeons) there is a white spot.
Wild pigeon lifestyle
Wild pigeons live in isolation from overcrowding and hate domestication, and are a source of many diseases for domesticated pigeons, therefore breeders are advised to beware of their presence near their birds' nests.
Types of wild pigeons
Wild pigeons are divided into several types based on color, shape, and sound, as well as the amount of meat they produce and flight characteristics. Each type of wild pigeon is divided into several types as well, from hybrid pigeons, mixed and pure pigeons. The mountain, the pure pigeons, and the impure pigeons.
１- Mountain wild pigeon
It is the most famous type of wild pigeon, and it is a type that tends to migrate and live in deserted and quiet places, and this type of pigeon hates being in noisy areas, and it is difficult to domesticate it, and as a result of the lack of food that mountain pigeons enjoy, it does not spawn more than twice a year.
２- Pure wild pigeon
This type of pigeon is characterized by the presence of a white spot above the back of the back.
３- impure wild pigeon
It is called the regular pigeon, and it combines domestic pigeons with wild pigeons, and it is very common among pigeon breeding enthusiasts.
Wild pigeon hunting
Wild pigeons are found in many Arab countries when they migrate from cold regions to warm ones, and the migration time for wild pigeons is the best time to catch them alive, and then raise them, develop them and earn from them, and there is more than one way to hunt wild pigeons, including hunting with a gun, and hunting using a net, Fishing with grain and thread, and fishing with a lathe.
By using a 12-millimeter hunting rifle, searching for areas where wild pigeons accumulate, then hiding in a hole the size suitable for the hunter and covering himself with tree leaves, and when the pigeons approach that area, the hunter begins to aim and hunt pigeons.
Line fishing
Because of the lack of food for wild pigeons in times of drought, hunters soak a quantity of grains, pierce them, then tie them with a thread of reinforced silk, and hide those threads under the soil, then fix a number of metal sticks in a tree or a rock, and when pigeons eat these grains, they are tied up, So you won't be able to escape.
Net fishing
This can be done when the pigeons are inside one of the empty wells, in which pigeons are often present in the evening, and the hunter covers part of the well’s mouth and throws a small stone inside it to scare the pigeons with it, and then the pigeons start flying, and the hunter at that time pulls the net hard to be able to From locking up the bathroom and not being able to escape.
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