--- title: Pigeon Movie Database Tacker description: Pigeons are big background actors in Hollywood canonical: https://time.com/4118388/pigeon-movie-database-tracker/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-18T19:22:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:00.361Z og:title: Someone Created a Database That Tracks Pigeon Activity In Movies og:description: Pigeons are big background actors in Hollywood og:url: https://time.com/4118388/pigeon-movie-database-tracker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Created a Database That Tracks Pigeon Activity In Movies twitter:description: Pigeons are big background actors in Hollywood twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Someone Created a Database That Tracks Pigeon Activity In Movies by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 18, 2015 7:22 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 18, 2015 7:22 PM UTC Did you know that way back in season one of _Game of Thrones_, at exactly [the 55-minute mark of episode 9](http://pigeonmoviedb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/game-of-thrones-is-daddy-pigeon-now.html), Arya Stark looks up at the sky and sees a flock of wild pigeons? Did you also note that 57 minutes and 20 seconds into the 1999 film _The Matrix,_ a group of pigeons with only average training fly through the scene only to be completely ignored by all the characters? You may have missed these avian moments, but the eagle-eyed creators of the [Pigeon Movie Database](http://pigeonmoviedb.blogspot.co.uk) did not. They have documented and catalogued many, many instances of pigeons’ moments of cinematic glory. There’s the time pigeons flew ([in low light even!](http://pigeonmoviedb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/predator-2-hunting-humans-not-pigeons.html)) to “interfere with a human-alien duel” in _Predator 2\._ In another almost dramatic scene, super spy [James Bond was unperturbed](http://pigeonmoviedb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/moonraker-pigeon-double-take.html) by a flock of pigeons that swooped through the sky over Venice’s San Marco Square while he was mid-chase in _Moonraker_. The site analyses pigeon cameos in _Toy Story 3, Back to the Story_, _Mary Poppins_, _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_ and many more. While the site does not seem to have been updated since 2012, perhaps a consortium of concerned pigeons can start a petition to bring it back. We’d sign. \[H/T [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/3t8cqe/a%5Fdatabase%5Fthat%5Ffocuses%5Fsolely%5Fon%5Fpigeon%5Factivity/?ref=share&ref%5Fsource=link)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4118388/pigeon-movie-database-tracker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4118388/pigeon-movie-database-tracker/"},"headline":"Someone Created a Database That Tracks Pigeon Activity In Movies","datePublished":"2015-11-18T19:22:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:00.361Z","description":"Pigeons are big background actors in Hollywood","url":"https://time.com/4118388/pigeon-movie-database-tracker/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Internet","movies","birds"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4118388/pigeon-movie-database-tracker/","name":"Someone Created a Database That Tracks Pigeon Activity In Movies"}}]}] ```