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Image of a pigeon in store

Title (Dublin Core)

Image of a pigeon in store

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

HIST30060
Despite quarantine restrictions, I was still able to work at my fast food job in the CBD. Pictured here is a pigeon who would come into our store looking for food in the quietest parts of the day, which were almost always due to the lack of people in the city. Whilst working in the city, I realised that most urban birds, including pigeons and seagulls, became very confident during the stricter quarantine periods. The lack of activity in the city meant they were not receiving the usual scraps they would receive from those travelling to and from their desk jobs. The birds became bold with their interactions with those who were coming to the city in order to gain the small amount of food they needed to survive. This small pigeon in our store is a good example of this. He would waltz in and munch on the oats that would land on our floor before we had time to clean them. Despite repeated attempts to shoo him outside, he would often walk around our floor before meandering outside again.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 18, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Sasha Longstaff

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Sasha Longstaff

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Animals
English Business & Industry
English Consumer Culture (shopping, dinning...)
English Food & Drink
English Cities & Suburbs

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

animals
CBD
pigeon
lack of people
need to survive

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Urban
city
pigeon
food scraps
hungry
fast food

Collection (Dublin Core)

en Survivor Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

2020/11/01

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

2020/11/04
02/15/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

2020/08/18

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 1, 2020 by Sasha Longstaff using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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