Rosemarie Scicluna (‘Let pigeons live’, March 25) wrote in defence of those unfettered pigeons found mostly nearby catering establishments and buildings where they build nests for their yet-to-be born squeakers.

Pigeons (homer) are most beautiful when seeing them arrive home from distances, far away, such as Taranto, in Sicily and Rome and further afield. So far, nobody knows exactly how they manage to find their loft, especially when they come across strong wind and rain.

They need to have good plumage and bone. However, it is not only the feathers and bone that count; feathers and bone are passive. It is the muscles that are active.

Nowadays, with all those expensive solar panels on the roofs together with some other electronic apparatus and clothes washed and left to dry on the rooftop, I think pigeons no longer have a place, especially in urban areas, unless they are not a menace in some other open area.

Being hit by pigeon droppings is said to be good luck. I found 101 methods on the internet on how to end their presence and they are not rubbished, as the correspondent alleges.