If you saw the “00s pigeon sound” trend on TikTok a while ago, you’ll know some ’90s and ’00s babies think the call was much more common in their youth than it is now.
We think that could be down to a sort of pigeon baby boom that happened when they were little ― it’s evened out since, but the cooing of newly-dense flocks could have stood out more when they were small.
That’s great to know, but then there’s the bigger question; why do birds sing at all, and why do they especially love to do it in the morning?