NYC Pigeons View Wallpaper
This NYC Pigeons View Wallpaper flips the script entirely — instead of photographing New York’s skyline, it shows Manhattan the way a pigeon sees it every day, from a high ledge above the mist with skyscrapers fading into a sepia haze below. The rock pigeon (Columba livia) is one of the most successful urban birds on earth. Cornell Lab’s All About Birds notes colonists introduced pigeons from Europe to North America in the early 1600s, where they have thrived in cities ever since, exploiting building ledges as stand-ins for the cliff faces they originally nested on. New York has approximately one million of them – and almost nobody ever looks at the city from their point of view, much like the cliff faces where they naturally nest.
NYC Pigeons View Wallpaper — Eight Million People, One Million Pigeons, One View
The city looks different when you’re the one who owns the rooftops. Download this free wallpaper and explore more bird photography in our birds collection.
