_Pollux writes:_ Yes, we are “pro-pigeon”:http://emdashes.com/2006/02/i-salute-fellow-propigeon-new.php here at Emdashes, and we believe that these feathered friends of ours are not only beautiful icons of “New York and _New Yorker_ culture”:http://emdashes.com/2007/03/the-pigeon-files-part-the-firs.php but also need to be protected across America. That’s why we’ve given our support to “the proposal”:http://www.change.org/ideas/view/protect_pigeons_under_the_migratory_bird_treaty_act to change the legal status of the feral pigeon, first submitted by “The New York Bird Club”:http://www.manhattanbirdclub.com/ as one of the Ideas for Change in America.