The London Question: Are pigeons misunderstood?

We took to the streets to ask Londoners their views on the city's ubiquitous flying inhabitants.

Transcript

00:00Pigeons' lives matter. Live, love, pigeon.

00:02There are less in London, but in Paris, it's really like, too much pigeons, kill the pigeons.

00:06They're a bit dirty. They're like flying rats.

00:08I mean, I don't think they're that bad.

00:09Comparison to some birds like seagulls.

00:11Seagulls will come and, like, snatch your food from you. I've had that before.

00:15They're a bit gross, actually.

00:16I'm not going to, like, give some food to the pigeons, you know, they're not actually my friends.

00:21It was me, the pigeon.

00:23Without the pigeons, we wouldn't really have an ecosystem, really, would we?

00:26Pigeons for life, you know?

00:27Live, laugh, love, pigeon.

00:29Exactly, we've got to love the pigeons.

00:30I wouldn't want it to touch me.

00:32They might not look as aesthetically pleasing as we'd like to think, you know, with their grey colour,

00:37and some of them will be walking around really crazy, feet missing, skull missing.

00:41But, you know what, that's not their fault.

00:42Some of us look crazy, like, nah.

00:44But, we move, and they've got to move too. They fly away more like.

00:48Excuse me, sir. Excuse me.

00:51Do you feel misunderstood?