Photo of a pigeon foot. The pigeon is being held at a bit of an awkward angle for her. She's on her back. The foot has some grey string wrapped loosely around it.
Struggled to even find a #stringfoot pigeon today. Which is great! And the one I did find hadn't been injured yet. #CatchThePigeon.
The foot of a pigeon tangled tightly in black hair. It's very swollen.
Another angle of the tangled pigeon foot. This side shows one of the toes has died and fallen off.
Pigeon foot now free of entanglement. The skin under where the hair was is damaged and raw.
A white tissue with gross bits of human hair and pigeon foot scabs on it.
Latest pigeon rescue was a bad one. And she flew away with the tote I used to restrain her around her neck 🤦🏻 Managed to grab it when she landed a few meters away though, thank goodness. Will cut the handles off it!
I always give the feet a good coat of F10 barrier cream.
#CatchThePigeon
A slightly blurry photo of a pigeon's underside. One foot has only one toe. The other has all the toes, but one is tied tightly in black human hair.
The remnants of the pigeon's entanglement, now removed, along with a grubby and damp paper towel and the tweezers used to remove the hair.
And this was today's #stringfoot rescue. Took an hour and a half to catch and clean her up. She'd already lost most of her toes.
There were two others, but by the time I was done with her they'd gone off to roost. I'll go back next week.
City #pigeons have it rough ☹️
#CatchThePigeon
A pigeon's pink feet. While the feet are free of entanglements the damage is clear; swelling, blistering and constriction wounds, including blackened toes.
A pigeons pink feet, entangled in chunks of red-blonde human hair.
A pigeon's feet. Constriction wounds are around the toes, and one foot is missing a toe.
Black elastic tied in hair and nylon thread.
A few of my earlier #stringfoot rescues. So much human hair 🤮
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One of my hobbies is rescuing #pigeons. City pigeons are prone to #stringfoot, where their feet get tied up in string, elastic, netting, & most often human hair. I catch them, de-string them, release them. I post with #CatchThePigeon over on Masto. Figured I should start a thread for it here.
Can't decide if this is legit or a pretext for the craziest scam known to man
It's the pigeon nappy that does it for me
#missingpigeon #pigeonnappy #catchthepigeon #stopthepigeon
Things they did not prepare me for in library school - chasing pigeons out of the library with a net and flailing of arms. #catchthepigeon
