Oversized Wood Pigeon (1 Viewer)

[Bluetail]

Just caught a snippet on the news this morning about a Wood Pigeon, nicknamed "Hercules", that's 50% larger than normal. The mind boggles. How often does this sort of thing occur? Is there a name for it? Gigantism maybe?

 

[timmyjones]

lol

were there any pics atached

 

[alan_rymer]

lol

were there any pics atached

No

Radio 4 doesn't do that yet!.

 

[Anthony Morton]

Just caught a snippet on the news this morning about a Wood Pigeon, nicknamed "Hercules", that's 50% larger than normal. The mind boggles. How often does this sort of thing occur? Is there a name for it? Gigantism maybe?

Probably the woodpigeon had fluffed up its feathers in order to keep itself warm - it tends to make them look much larger than they really are.

 

[graeme782]

Probably the woodpigeon had fluffed up its feathers in order to keep itself warm - it tends to make them look much larger than they really are.

You've obviously not seen the picture in the Daily Express. This is one huge Woodie.

 

[Reader]

The photo was on GMTV this morning. My god it's a big b****r. It showed the pigeon mopping the peanuts up whole from the bird table. There was a Blue Tit by the side of it that was totally dwarfed.

 

[Touty]

The photo was on GMTV this morning. My god it's a big b****r. It showed the pigeon mopping the peanuts up whole from the bird table. There was a Blue Tit by the side of it that was totally dwarfed.

article here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1505497,00.html

No pic

 

[Nina P]

Now that must be the reason we are told not to put peanuts out loose! LOL! I really thought our woody's were big enough, that one had better watch out for the Sparrowhawks as ours here is rather partial to wood pigeon!

 

[Nightranger]

They didn't print my suggested caption "Airbus Industries reveal their new super-jumbo woodpigeon to the world".

Ian