Rats with wings in Market Street, Aberdare

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Rats with wings in Market Street, Aberdare by Jaggery as part of the Geograph project.

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Rats with wings in Market Street, Aberdare

Image: © Jaggery Taken: 5 Feb 2015

I first heard pigeons referred to as rats with wings in the 1980 Woody Allen film Stardust Memories. The term first appeared in 1966 in The New York Times, but Allen’s film reached a much wider audience.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.713169
Longitude
-3.443023