Friends of ours live in the country and we went to visit them last week.  They have a pigeon shelter and this is one of the poor little guys that lives there.  Can you believe that someone can made tiny little casts for a pigeon? 

The rest of the brood (what's the name for a bunch of pigeons?) get to live in this nice cage and they get let out all time to fly around in the yard.  Everyone once in a while, they let them out a few kilometres from home and watch them all fly back to the coop.