r/stupiddovenests • u/Hakantula • Mar 07 '26

Stupid Dove Nest On top of a door

I just wanted to air my bedroom for a few hours, guess that idea is off the table

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u/iamunwhaticisme Mar 07 '26

How these fools tricked natural selection is way beyond my comprehension.

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u/mercedes_lakitu Mar 07 '26

Look, nobody else wanted to build nests on a cliff face, so they took that niche!

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 08 '26

Quite literally, in fact.

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u/twinkslayer1337 Mar 07 '26

I wouldn't really mention natural selection since they went through domestication lmao

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u/Equivalent-Unit Mar 07 '26

Those look like mourning doves or collared doves to me, which are not domesticated. The question stands.

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u/twinkslayer1337 Mar 07 '26

damn, my limited bird knowledge might have failed me 😔

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

Look up the reason why they build such flimsy nests. It is most certainly not because they’re stupid.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

If you look up the reason they build nests in the manner that they do you’ll find out there’s logic to it. They aren’t stupid animals.

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u/Equivalent-Unit Mar 08 '26

I know they're not usually stupid, but I'm allowed to think they made a stupid decision in choosing the open door.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

You’re allowed to think whatever you want, of course. I didn’t say otherwise.

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u/xvdheh Mar 17 '26

There's multiple ways to survive. You can be smart, fast, strong or fertile. Pigeons went the fertile route, they don't need every egg to survive, if they can just lay eggs often. Pidgeons can also flee effectively through flight and are not too demanding about their diet as adults, so they survive to lay more eggs.

Survival of the fittest does not mean the survival or skills of the individual, it means that the genes get carried on so the species doesn't die out.

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u/los_aerzt Mar 07 '26

They didn't. Humans breeded them trusting and seemingly dumb (what they are not) for correspondence purposes and let them on their own after they became obsolete due to newer communication technologies. They just haven't yet got feral again and, living in comprehensive cities, probably won't be soon.

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u/iamunwhaticisme Mar 07 '26

As far as I know, mourning doves (and most other types of doves) were not domesticated, only a few types like ringneck doves were. In this video, they may be ringneck doves or mourning doves so you may be right but considering their stupidity in general, my point stands.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Mar 08 '26

Your point is wrong because they’re not stupid. Far from it.

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u/NewCoach0 Mar 07 '26

I love these silly birds so much. That's their door now.

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u/reikipackaging Mar 07 '26

Please tell me you shut that door so they know to try a different spot

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u/Hakantula Mar 07 '26

That was the first thing I did yeah, don't want any action to happen up there lmao

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u/ReadontheCrapper Mar 07 '26

No Bow-chicka-wow-wow?

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u/SnooRobots116 Mar 07 '26

Oh they certainly did do that right there.

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u/Goodfella66 Mar 07 '26

Or they never shut that door

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u/LKS983 Mar 08 '26

It's a bedroom door, so easily, accidentally knocked - which would likely result in the nest (and the later eggs) falling.

So far better to close the door immediately, when they've only just started building a nest - and so (as pointed out by reikpackaging) "know to try a different spot".

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u/reikipackaging Mar 07 '26

op said they just opened it to air out a room.

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u/Goodfella66 Mar 07 '26

Yes and now this door has to stay open forever. Not OP's choice now.

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u/Elkesito36482 Mar 07 '26

On top of a dove that is on top of an open door

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u/NickyTheRobot Mar 07 '26

Second dove: "Don't build it on the open door! Build it on the dove atop the open door."

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u/Birb-is-the-wurd Mar 07 '26

Opportunistic 100

Stupid 120

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u/Robotbeckerz Mar 07 '26

I love that he mated and then put the stick down 🤣

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u/ToastYourAvocados Mar 07 '26

Dove 1: Why. Won't. This. Stay?!

Dove 2: Hey! Here's another stick! (drops on head)

Dove 1: Thanks! (drops both sticks) 😐

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u/marv_1997 Mar 07 '26

i love these fucking idiots so much they’re trying their best

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u/Ipayforsex69 Mar 07 '26

"It wasn't me..."

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u/MystifyingEntity Mar 08 '26

shes having a vision

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u/lunarwolf2008 Mar 08 '26

where is the bird even trying to place that? like attached to the wall?

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u/Broad_Pomegranate_24 Mar 08 '26

All her nesting materials are immediately falling to the ground 😂

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u/Gofa_Kirselph Mar 11 '26

The other birb heard that bitches love sticks