Talk:Pouter

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Feral pouters[edit]

The square in front of my house is home to many feral pigeons, most of which look like ordinary feral pigeons, though a few have unusual plumage. Of those of "ordinary" coat, several have a display which includes thickening the neck (inflating the crop, I suppose) while lowering and widening the tail feathers in a sort of fan. This especially happens during what I call courtship, when one pigeon will follow another one, walking about one pigeon length or so behind (let's say 20 to 30 cm). Made me think of a Brussels Franco-Flemish dialect idiom, where "een dikke nek" ("a thick neck") means someone vainglorious and boastful, so I mentally called that display "the pigeon strut". Tonymec (talk) 05:24, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]