What's the Story?: Contextual Research

Over the weekend I travelled to my local library and collected a variety of books about birds that I knew contained information about Pigeons. However, only three of the books were of much use.

Cocker, M. and Maybe, R. (2005) Birds of Britannica, London: Chatto & Windus
Taylor, M. and Arlott, N. (2008) Identifying Birds by Colour, London: Collins
Perrins, C. (2009) The Encyclopaedia of Birds, Oxford: Oxford University Press

(Research Books)

Whilst gathering this secondary source information I discovered that there are actually a very wide range of pigeon species, so for this project I will concentrate as much as possible on the feral pigeon (columba livia) which is most commonly found within the city. Furthermore, although I feel there is an element of humour to be had about how pigeons decide who to poo on, I feel this may end up only being a small aspect of my final piece and my proposal itself may well change over time too.

Whilst doing my research I found that there were minor contradictions about certain areas of pigeon biology, habitat and diets etc. I found myself getting lost in deciding which source to trust, however eventually I chose to simply draw a line under this area of research and move on. I may not ending up using this information anyway when it comes to my final piece for this brief.