Talk:Pouter

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Talk:Pouter

Feral pouters

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The square in front of my house is home to many feral pigeons, most of which look like ordinary feral pigeons, though a few have unusual plumage. Of those of "ordinary" coat, several have a display which includes thickening the neck (inflating the crop, I suppose) while lowering and widening the tail feathers in a sort of fan. This especially happens during what I call courtship, when one pigeon will follow another one, walking about one pigeon length or so behind (let's say 20 to 30 cm). Made me think of a Brussels Franco-Flemish dialect idiom, where "een dikke nek" ("a thick neck") means someone vainglorious and boastful, so I mentally called that display "the pigeon strut". Tonymec (talk) 05:24, 13 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

These are like the Elves of pigeons, so freakishly elongated and distorted in the pursuit of elegance. Except, of course, for the Granadino Pouter, the fat hobbit of pigeons. I can't decide if I like these things or if they're freakish abominations, a testament that man's dominion over nature does more harm than good. Crayonic (talk) 19:53, 26 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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