Let me share with you a method for distinguishing a male pigeon from a female one...
First you catch such a bird and take their beak between your thumb and forefinger. (Please, be kind!) If your victim tries hard to escape, you've got a female...
...or that's what my father and his fellows practised when they were kids.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- I used to believe all cats were female and all dogs were male.— Sabby
- I used to think that all cats were female and all dogs were male. — Annalisa
- i used to believe that all cats were female and dogs were male!Anon
- I used to believe that cats were all female and dogs were all male.— Rachel
- i used to believe that all cats were female and all dogs were male— am i weird?