Pigeons Wearing Cowboy Hats

When you go to Las Vegas, you expect to drop a few dollars in a slot machine.  You might expect to see an Elvis impersonator.  You might expect to see a person flying overtop you on Freemont Street.   Las Vegas does not, however, bring to mind the thought of pigeons wearing little cowboy hats strutting along the streets or flying about.

Not expecting to see pigeons in little cowboy hats may not stop you from seeing them.

Early this month, pigeons wearing cowboy hats began appearing on the streets of Las Vegas not far from McCarran International Airport.

Nobody knows for sure how the birds came to be wearing cowboy hats.  And “wearing” may not be an accurate term.  According to Mariah Hillman, who runs Lofty Hopes, a pigeon rescue and advocacy group, the hats seem to be glued in place.  She has been trying to catch one of the bird to assess.

You never know what you will find in Vegas.  This story just goes to show that.

I was really shocked to find a pigeon advocacy group there.

—Mitchell Hegman

Source: Huffpost.com (Josephine Harvey)