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  • Why do pigeons always stand on the road?
  • CountZero
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    Rooks do it as well, there’s a junction at the end of the short bit of road as you enter the business estate I work on, and there’s often half a dozen rooks wandering around in the road in just that one place.
    There’s sometimes a pigeon or two with them, although the last time I saw a pigeon there was in my rear view mirror enclosed in a cloud of feathers after it took off right in front of my car…

    No obvious damage to the car, fortunately.

    LD
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    Why not? Why would you hit an animal on the road unnecessarily?

    Usually just sounding your horn is sufficient to clear the road of wandering wildlife.

    Driving privilege innit.
    I say the same about cyclists. 😉

    kayak23
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    Rooks do it as well, there’s a junction at the end of the short bit of road as you enter the business estate I work on, and there’s often half a dozen rooks wandering around in the road in just that one place.

    Trouble with them is they can only move out of the way horizontally or vertically and can’t go over other birds.

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    timba
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    Rookwits

    mattsccm
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    Pigeons are clever. They strut arouind my lawn in front of me and the cat knowing that she is too lazy and I would get a bollocking for the noise shooting them would make yet in our fields they know exactly what a gun is like and fly up with the airliners.
    As for braking for animals in the road well….. Squirrels and pigeons need culling so speed up. Boar, deer and sheep are bigger so slow down or duff the vehicle. We all know that, if the dimwit behind you tail ends you because you brake hard, it’s their fault but it is still a pain to get the dents sorted.

    mattsccm
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    Oh yeah. Who ever suggested the horn doesn’t live where animals live in the road. The sheep outside don’t even look up to a horn the boar don’t change their plans either.

    i_like_food
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    Trouble with them is they can only move out of the way horizontally or vertically and can’t go over other birds.

    Nicely done.

    Olly
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    They don’t move until the last nanosecond and I always end up dabbing the brakes.

    If they move as soon as they see an incoming predator, the predator can easily and gently adjust course to follow them.
    If they leave it till the last minute, the predator (dog/cat/sparrowhawk) has to make a rapid adjustment in velocity to follow them and looses all their momentum and speed.

    same reason you can chase a sheep down a lane, and it wont dive into the hedge until youre nearly on top of it.

    dangeourbrain
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    same reason you can chase a sheep down a lane, and it wont dive into the hedge until youre nearly on top of it.

    Why are you trying to get on top of a sheep?

    johnx2
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    Bragging they can go faster than a sheep. Anything that doesn’t pay road tax has to be fair game.

    That said, I know a guy who wound up in hospital for a few days after a rabbit ran through his front wheel. Fur everywhere.

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