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It's probably okay, it can walk and fly.

I tried giving it some bread but it wasn't paying any attention to it. I shoved it closer, which scared the poor guy and it flew on a first floor windowsill across the street. That's probably for the best, it could easily fall victim to a dog otherwise. I threw the bread up there but it seemed tired from the flight and sat in the shade. Most of the bread was gone the next day, and so was the pigeon.

I was really surprised by how long the young ones' beaks are, I first thought it could be a corvid.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It had a hard time flying and still needs to learn about windows... It tried landing on the window frame first and got forcefully redirected. Thankfully it got the lesson at safe speed and height. I don't regret scaring it from its resting place on the street, there's so many dog walkers it could have very well been eaten before it got on its feet.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, maybe eyesight issues, if so hopefully it learns to work around them.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably not that, both eyes appear the same and it looked around like normal. It eyed the windowsill from afar and flew straight to it but it had a hard time gaining height and needed to rest a lot, I think it slept for a few hours before reaching for the bread. I guess it's inexperienced or recovering from shock after having flown into a window.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, I can't tell when humans need glasses but still manage by looking at their eyes (them bumping into glass walls is more telling).

Best of luck to the chonky birbkid!

Well, it appears to not be short-sighted. Its problem with windows could be far-sightedness or incompetence (pigeons are not very big-brained so it might take several crashes to get the lesson across).