{"id":5376,"date":"2026-02-08T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doncha.local\/sl\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:52:07","slug":"narava-bo-poskrbela-za-to-zakaj-to-pri-mestnih-golobih-ne-drzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/narava-bo-poskrbela-za-to-zakaj-to-pri-mestnih-golobih-ne-drzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature will take care of it\u201d \u2013 why this doesn\u2019t apply to urban pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This sentence is often heard. It sounds logical. But it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Urban pigeons are not wild animals.<\/strong><br>They originate from domestic pigeons (domesticated rock doves) that were bred by humans and later abandoned. We made them dependent \u2013 and then left them to fend for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city is not a natural habitat.<br>There is no suitable food, hardly any safe nesting places, and many dangers: traffic, nets, glass, poison, hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feeding bans do not solve the problem.<br>They do not lead to fewer pigeons, but to more suffering: disease, weakened animals, and slow, painful deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNature\u201d can only regulate what has developed naturally.<br>Here, humans have intervened \u2013 and therefore also bear responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What really helps:<\/strong><br>\u2022 managed pigeon lofts<br>\u2022 controlled feeding<br>\u2022 replacing eggs with artificial ones instead of allowing more suffering<br>\u2022 awareness instead of prejudice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning away is not a solution. Taking responsibility is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Text translation:<\/strong> Stadttauben Aalen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/doncha.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/prispevki\/golobUI-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doncha.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/prispevki\/golobUI-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/doncha.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/prispevki\/golobUI-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/doncha.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/prispevki\/golobUI-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/doncha.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/prispevki\/golobUI-600x900.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/doncha.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/prispevki\/golobUI.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sentence is often heard. It sounds logical. But it isn\u2019t. Urban pigeons are not wild animals.They originate from domestic pigeons (domesticated rock doves) that were bred by humans and later abandoned. We made them dependent \u2013 and then left&#8230; <a class=\"direadmore\" href=\"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/narava-bo-poskrbela-za-to-zakaj-to-pri-mestnih-golobih-ne-drzi\/\"> Nadaljuj z branjem&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sporocila"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20649,"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/20649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doncha.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}