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Are pigeons domesticated? Or are they wild? They are not pets, though they are sometimes treated that way, fed crumbs and spoken to, trained to expect kindness. Pigeons do not live on the periphery of cities like seagulls or geese. They are right in it, sometimes literally indoors, and they never leave. They are urban wildlife but they are not wild. They do not migrate. They eat what they can find in a city. A city pigeon has no more business in the actual wilderness than a Yorkshire terrier. But in the city, even among cars and other hostilities, pigeons are unflappable. You can shoo...