Pigeon peas can be of a perennial variety, in which the crop can last three to five years ( although the seed yield drops considerably after the first two years ), or an annual variety more suitable for seed production.

Pigeon peas are an important legume crop of rainfed agriculture in the semiarid tropics.

Pigeon peas are cultivated in more than 25 tropical and subtropical countries, either as a sole crop or intermixed with cereals, such as sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ), pearl millet ( Pennisetium glaucum ), or maize ( Zea mays ), or with other legumes, such as peanuts ( Arachis hypogaea ).

Pigeon peas from Trinidad and Tobago

Pigeon peas are both a food crop ( dried peas, flour, or green vegetable peas ) and a forage / cover crop.

Pigeon peas are also made as a stew, with plantain balls.

Pigeon peas are in some areas an important crop for green manure, providing up to 40 kg nitrogen per hectare.

* Pigeon peas ( locally known as " gungo peas ")

These are the Rainy River, the Pigeon River, Lake Superior, the St. Mary's River, Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and along the St. Lawrence River from Kingston, Ontario to the Quebec boundary just east of Cornwall, Ontario.

* 1812 – 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.

His political views are said to have debarred him from the highest positions in the Church, the King, George III, at one point saying, Pigeon Paley?

As the Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire are in all likelihood part of the Indo-Australian radiation that produced the 3 small subfamilies mentioned above with the fruit doves and-pigeons ( including the Nicobar Pigeon ), they are here included as a subfamily Raphinae, pending better material evidence of their exact relationships.

Amongst the 10 species that have become extinct since 1600 ( the conventional date for estimating modern extinctions ) are two of the most famous extinct species, the Dodo and the Passenger Pigeon.

* Headwaters of the Au Sable, Black, Manistee, Pigeon, and Sturgeon Rivers are in Otsego County.

The most notable attractions are the Fitzroy Falls, just off the main road from the Highlands to Kangaroo Valley and Pigeon House Mountain west of Milton.

The Pigeon Point and Higginsonville neighborhoods are located immediately north of Downtown Beaufort and are built around the Beaufort National Cemetery.

Dollywood and Dollywood's Splash Country, which are both named for Dolly Parton, are amusement parks located in nearby Pigeon Forge.

Some of those artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria ( who recorded the album " Return from Planet Dub " in collaboration with, and performs live with, Lee Scratch Perry ), Liquid Stranger from Sweden, New York City artists including Ticklah, also known as Victor Axelrod, Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Trio ( who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton, and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu ), Subatomic Sound System ( who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up ), Dub is a Weapon, King Django, Boom One Sound System, Dr. Israel, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, NY, Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Future Pigeon from Los Angeles, German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label, and Twilight Circus from the Netherlands.

The Rock Pigeon and Stock Dove are more alike in size and plumage, but wild specimens of the former have a white rump and two well-marked dark bars on the wing, while the rump of the Stock Dove is grey and its wing bars incomplete.

The nuptial flight, high and circling, is like that of the Common Wood Pigeon, but the undulations are less decided ; it is accompanied by the whip-crack of the downward flicked wings.

Some of the characters in the Lantz universe ( both cartoons and comics ) are Oswald the Lucky Rabbit ( formerly ), Space Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Homer Pigeon, Chilly Willy, Charlie Chicken, Wally Walrus and many more.

" Pigeon Posts " have been established all over the world and while mainly used in the military, some are still in service today.

The seeds are dispersed by the Kererū ( New Zealand Pigeon ), which eats the ' berries ' and passes the seeds in its droppings.

Unlike many alcids, Pigeon Guillemots are diurnal and lay two eggs.

The Passenger Pigeon was a very social bird.

* The Squatter Pigeon ( Geophaps scripta ), like the very similar Partridge Pidgeon, spends feeds, roosts, and nests on the ground, and prefers infertile sandy soils and gravel where the grass grows only thinly, allowing easy movement.

The three Western European Columba pigeons, Common Wood Pigeon, Stock Dove, and Rock Pigeon, though superficially alike, have very distinctive characteristics ; the Common Wood Pigeon may be identified at once by its larger size at and, and the white on its neck and wing.

The Common Wood Pigeon is gregarious, often forming very large flocks outside the breeding season.

" The river was probably so named by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye ( 1685 – 1749 ), who was a very active explorer, in the years 1731 and onward, of the vast country from Pigeon River and Rainy Lake to the Saskatchewan and Missouri Rivers, establishing trading posts and missions.

At 37 – 40 cm, it looks like a very dark Wood Pigeon.

At 40 – 43 cm, a Laurel Pigeon looks like a very dark Wood Pigeon.

The seeds are dispersed by the Kererū ( New Zealand Pigeon ), which eats the very conspicuous ' berries ' and passes the seeds in its droppings.

As a six-lane divided highway through Pigeon Forge, very tall multi-fixture street lights in the median are decorated with white LED snowflakes that " fall " down the poles.

Like the extinct Passenger Pigeon this species " illustrates a very important principle of conservation biology: it is not always necessary to kill the last pair of a species to force it to extinction.

Transfer rates are relatively high, possibly due to the very nature of Pigeon Forge ’ s economy, which is predominantly seasonal.

Albini's touring schedule with Shellac did not allow time for the band to rehearse a full set, so they instead played a short set of four songs: " Cables ", " Dead Billy ", " Pigeon Kill ", and " Racer-X ".

Reintroduction into Canterbury has been unsuccessful so far but introductions to Stevensons Island ( in Lake Wanaka in 2003 ) and from there to Pigeon and Pig Island ( in Lake Wakatipu in 2005 / 2006 ) have been much more successful.

Pigeon faeces from agricultural areas contain few native plants, and samples from forests have few crop species, so some individual birds may concentrate on crops.

The show is widely known as Stop the Pigeon based on the show's original working title and the show's theme song, written by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera ( and based on the jazz standard " Tiger Rag ") which repeats that phrase so often that it is frequently mistaken as the show's actual title.

A narrow bush trail reached as far as the Pigeon River, and so was chosen as the route for the new road.

In 2011, the department's traffic surveys showed that on average, 8, 887 vehicles used the highway daily in the city of Bad Axe east of M-53 and 832 vehicles did so each day between M-25 and Pigeon, the highest and lowest counts along the highway, respectively.