Chabutro

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A Chabutro (also spelt Chabutaro; Gujarati) or Chabutra (Hindi) is a tower-like structure found in India that provides nesting sites for birds, especially pigeons.^[1] People, particularly Hindu consider it auspicious to feed pigeons and in morning women, men and even children come to feed pigeons at such Chabutras and as such you can see Chabutra outside villages, where Hindu population is more and also can find Chabutra inside Hindu Temples.^[2]

The base of the structure typically has a sitting platform and serves as a social gathering place. Both names for this structure derive from kabutar and kubatar, the respective Gujarati and Hindi words for 'pigeon', and they are both occasionally used in a broader sense to indicate any sitting platform, usually under a tree or beside any body of water, especially in northern India.^[3]