that's kind of impressive, to be honest
There's a video on Youtube of a rat fighting and incapacitating a pidgeon before dragging it off into some bushes.
Pidgeons and doves have lived so long because they breed like mad and almost all their needs are provided on a massive scale by humans.
Litter in streets brings them an unending bounty of food. Our tall buildings are also artificial cliffs for them to nest in, and built up cities bring the advantage of minimal green space reducing shelter for their avian predators.
Plus, we actively breed and domesticate them too.
It really doesn't matter if a few hundred get crushed by grain, or several thousand are squished by busses.