Do Pigeons Eat Poop?
Do Pigeons Eat Poop? Do pigeons eat poop? The best guess—the one with the most research—is that birds eat fecal sacs because nestling poop serves as a nutritional treat (a trait known as coprophagia). “Parents will eat the feces because the nestlings cannot completely digest the food that they eat,” Ibáñez-Álamo says. Do pigeons poop?