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Pattern of behaviour

Experienced decoyers will tell you that they have their favourite fields on the farms where they have permission to control pigeons. These will be fields that produce good bags year on year, regardless of the crop being grown. But have you ever wondered why this is? From my own observations, these fields are invariably under natural flightlines, which pigeons use all the year round as they head out to feed. Sooner or later that field will contain something the woody wishes to eat, so the process of all the birds in the area congregating on that

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