I strongly agree! They have such delicate grey pattern, plus these iridescent feathers, and these orange eyes... I've been trying to tell people that and I was appalled to see they didn't seem to undertsand what I was saying. In one specific instance, I was pointing at the pigelon and saying "Look, isn't it beautiful? See these patterns? See this rainvow on its collar?" and the guy just said "I don't know, it's just a pigeon" . I'm starting to think many people don't actually look at pigeons. They don't see their shape their feathers or their colors. They quickly identify it as a pigeon, and immediately attach to them all the ideas they've been learning to attach to them : Dirty, invasive, pests... It's like their not seeing an image, just a whiteboard with a bunch of words, attached to more words. Like these overly labelled comics, but only the labels. They look at things and identity them, but don't see them.

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think it's the same for a lot of common animals. In the UK people couldn't give a shit about mice, rats, squirrels, pigeons but whenever I see one I make sure to point it out to my son and watch them for a while.