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Has anyone seen a baby pigeon and if so where do they live and whats the correct name for them2007-11-24 17:20:18Answers:

They're called squabs. They live with their parents because they're born altrical (dependent, bald and blind), and they're really unique to the bird world, because if you remember, aves and mammals are different because mammals have hair and produce milk -- but pigeons produce "crop milk". Crop milk, like breast milk, is made of sloughed off parent cells, but crop milk is made in the parent's throat-area, and regurgitated into the squab. They are the only bird that nourishes their babies this way.

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Baby pigeons are called squabs.

I see some in our garden when they fell out of the nests (The nest (if a few sticks/twigs stuck together with guano can be called a nest) after a storm (heavy rain with strong wind).

Sometimes I see their "nests" under ledges high up on the side of tall buildings and some people say they see them breeding on their own balconies!

Their nests are very funny and rough. Babies soon feather up (fledge), and reach weights greater than their parents (they grow very quickly), who feed them well. Pigeons produce a slurry in their crops, to feed squabs, and it is called "pigeon milk".

And this is True! (I bet you never thought a bird made "milk"?)

ps. Small birds which look like pigean are called doves and are fully grown. Some people mistake them for baby pigeans however they are fully grown birds

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i can't wait to see the answers.people have tried to convince me that the cute small gray birds are baby pigeons i don't think so..

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yes, they live in a nest

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Ive seen a baby pigeon.. I dont know the correct name but I used to call it, "the annoying little poop machine" that lived on my 7th floor balcony.

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Ask Cecil Adams:

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I think its a squab?

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A baby pigeon is called a squab. They don't leave the nest until they are about the same size as mom and dad. You probably see squaba all the time, but just don't realize it!