Abstract
Numbers and daily activities in the Feral pigeon (Columba livia f. domestica) were studied at a site in the Smíchov Quarter in Prague by wing tagging and GPS telemetry. The research was focused on finding whether there is the only pigeon group related to the above site by daily activities connected to their consistent food habits or whether there are two subgroups, one of them staying at the site and the other leaving to get food further from the city.
A total of 10 birds were caught and marked by a wing tag and one bird was tracked by GPS telemetry. It was found that the pigeons are divided into two subgroups at the site, one of them inhabiting an area close to their roosting sites even during the day and getting fed on garbage or by people, while the other left to get food on the fields 6 km away from the city.
In the sowing and harvest periods, the whole group took part in leaving to feed in the arable land further from the city.