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by knapp
4540 days ago
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"Pigeon milk" does exist: it is a type of crop milk, the regurgitated lining that parent birds feed to their young. But "pigeon milker" as pigeon fancier instead is a copy of the Dutch word for nightjar ("geitenmelker"), according to NL Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivenmelk Nightjars were known once as goatsuckers in English because it was believed they sucked milk from goats. So it seems it is just a play on words. I am not Dutch, though. |
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