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How a Philadelphia couple turned pigeons into a popular tour
Hannah Michelle Brower and Aspen Simone built the tour around birds many people consider pests, and CBS News's Steve Hartman profiled them; the pigeons declined to comment.
On air: Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock on BBN TonightPublished
At a glance
- First reported by CBS News: “How a Philadelphia couple turned pigeons into one of the city's most popular tours”.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 8:42 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.
- Topics: Philadelphia.
- BBN covered this story before: Bones found outside Philadelphia's "house of horrors" (October 16).
The real story
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What BBN said about it
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA couple in Philadelphia has turned pigeons, which many people see as a nuisance, into a sightseeing tour that CBS News calls one of the city's most popular.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHannah Michelle Brower and Aspen Simone saw a bird everyone ignores and thought, there is a business here. I respect the hustle.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSteve Hartman has the story in his series On the Road, and it is about pigeons.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPeople are paying money to follow a pigeon around a city, Hank. Meanwhile I have been talking into my phone for free.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt has no audience.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNot with that attitude. Imagine a tour of a bird that eats a dropped pretzel off a sidewalk and gets a standing ovation.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe pigeon has been doing that for years without a ticket booth, and now somebody is selling the view.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThese two found a niche nobody else thought of, and now they are running tours. That is entrepreneurship right there.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI have fed the same pigeon outside this building for six years, and it has never once offered me a tour.
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