Patrick Bernard Oreja made an educated guess on this one in our #trackertuesdays #weeklytrackingchallenge, “Green pigeon? Fruit seed matter curling up the scat and colouring it. Can also see Uric acid.”
Pigeons and doves (family Columbidae), create spiraled little scats under roosts. Depending on what they are eating, they can appear as tight little coils resembling cinnamon buns, or Chelsea buns, complete with the whitewash of uric acid resembling the icing. Pigeon scats tend to be looser, as they eat a lot of fruit, and they are also often more colorful, and larger, as we see in the photo. You can also make out seeds from the fruits.
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