Talk:Feral Pigeon

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[edit] Splitting Rock Pigeon

I've transferred information to a new article on Feral pigeons.Barbara Shack 12:45, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I'm aware of that. Did you consider discussing this change first, or providing reasoning on the page itself at all? This is a fairly big change, and it would seem that information directly pertaining to one particular species should belong on that species' article, whether or not it takes up an extensive amount of space (and in this case, the information on feral pigeons is one of the more relevant sections within the Rock pigeon article.--C.Logan 12:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I feel the rock pigeon articvle is too long. I'm copying this to the discussion page of Feral pigeon. Barbara Shack 13:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, according to WP:LENGTH#A rule of thumb, the size of the article (20,993 bytes) did not come close to warranting a content fork by size alone. The problem with this article is that you've essentially formed parallel articles concerning the same species, with corresponding sections on feeding, breeding, etc. This kind of forking, as far as I can see, is strongly discouraged.--C.Logan 13:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

This discussion seems to be going on here, and on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds#Rock pigeon and Talk:Rock Pigeon, as well as personal pages. Can we bring it all together to one place? I suggest Talk:Rock Pigeon.--Richard New Forest 15:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beach pigeons

In Dawlish pigeons are to be found on the beach, and nest under the overhead railway on the sefront. I can't find an online reference for this new habitat, but is well known (in fact very obvious) locally. Can anyone find a reference? Totnesmartin 20:38, 20 October 2007 (UTC)