FERAL PIGEON (Columba livia)

Common resident.

Feral Pigeons were confirmed as breeding in four of the tetrads covering Stevenage in the 1992 Breeding Atlas. The 2012 Atlas recorded probable breeding in two tetrads and, possible breeding in a further seven.

The 2012 Winter Atlas confirmed their presence from 10 of the tetrads covering Stevenage.

In 2015 in excess of 100 birds were reported from the Town Centre, 100 were reported from Stevenage on 29 October 2018 and, 18 December 2019, 146 on 10 December 2020 and, 200 on 26 November 2021.