Birds Disrespecting Statues

Pigeons upset over removal of Confederate statues. Too bad, poopers!

Balzac topped by a bird. Paris.

Pointe de Kerpenhir, Brittany, France: perching on the Virgin and Child

In Dubrovnik - He's smiling because the pigeon's on his head? Photo shared by LTW

Even in the garden of the Sun King at Versailles, birds can’t help themselves. From https://www.facebook.com/ouiouijespeakfranglais/posts/1648840968519431:0

Statue of Infante D. Henrique in square by Palácio da Bolsa, Porto, Portugal.

Stencil graffiti in Evora, Portugal.

Damn pigeons everywhere! - at Praça de Luís de Camões, Lisbon, Portugal

Jules Émile Planchon, French botanist who headed the botany department at Montpellier University when the phylloxera plague began killing off French grapevines. In collaboration with Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet and the American Charles Valentine Riley, he discovered that grafting imported American grape rootstock onto French vines made the vines resistant to the organism spreading the plague.

Johann Luneberg, Finnish poet, Esplanadi Park, Helsinki

Mamallapuram Shore Temple, on the Bay of Bengal, Tamil Nadu, India

Avignon, Cité des Papes (or des Pigeons)