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    The Carrier or English Carrier is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Carriers, along with other varieties of domesticated...
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    called a carrier pigeon; this nomenclature can be confusing, though, since it is distinct from the English carrier, an ancient breed of fancy pigeon. Modern-day...
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    are many fancy or ornamental breeds of pigeons: among them are the English carrier pigeons, a variety of pigeon with prominent wattles and an almost vertical...
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    Spectacled tyrant Gracula hill mynas Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) The English carrier pigeon Mammals with wattles include: Some domestic goats have fleshy, fur-covered...
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  • This is an alphabetical list of pigeon breeds; these are exclusively breeds of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica). Other Columbidae species...
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  • and includes show-type racing pigeons. American Show Racer Dragoon English Carrier German Beauty Homer Homing pigeon This group includes breeds developed...
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    Paddy (Pigeon number NPS.43.9451) was an Irish carrier pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal after being the fastest pigeon to arrive back in England with news...
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    Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The time...
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    Columbidae (redirect from Pigeon)
    an island bird, and the passenger pigeon, whose flocks were once counted in the billions. In colloquial English, the smaller species tend to be called...
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    Cher Ami (category Individual domesticated pigeons)
    Major Whittlesey, a novel by Kathleen Rooney Cher Ami: The Story of a Carrier Pigeon, a children's book by Marion Cothren, published in 1934 "Cher Ami",...
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  • catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages (hence the name of the show's theme song "Stop The Pigeon"). The title is a reference...
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    Rock dove (redirect from Blue Rock Pigeon)
    dove, rock pigeon, or common pigeon (/ˈpɪdʒ.ən/ also /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/; Columba livia) is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).: 624  In...
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    catapulted from a carrier's deck. An unusual feature of Langley was provision for a carrier pigeon house on the stern between the 5-inch guns. Pigeons had been...
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    Street. From 1897 into the early 20th century the building was used as a pigeon-carrier postal service between Great Barrier Island and Auckland. It was New...
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  • the occasion, killing all but one of the carrier pigeons. Ciccio scrambles to replace them, but the new pigeons he finds are German, and they deliver MacDougall's...
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    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (category English non-fiction books)
    written drafts of an introduction and two chapters on the domestication of pigeons that would eventually form part of The Variation of Animals and Plants...
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  • Mary of Exeter (category Individual domesticated pigeons)
    Mary of Exeter was a carrier pigeon who flew many military missions with the National Pigeon Service during World War II, transporting important messages...
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    sent by carrier pigeon. Parisian photographer René Dagron used microfilm to permit each pigeon to carry a high volume of messages, as pigeons can carry...
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  • (1978–2003), American racehorse    Pigeons Kenley Lass (c. 1940), British war pigeon Scotch Lass (died 1944), British carrier pigeon The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie,...
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  • "The past, present, and future of Canadian English: What our accent tells us about being Canadian". The Pigeon. 17 July 2020. Archived from the original...
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    "The past, present, and future of Canadian English: What our accent tells us about being Canadian". The Pigeon. 17 July 2020. Archived from the original...
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  • important information. John Woo (ジョン・ウー, Jon Wu) or Woo-san (ウーさん, Wusan) A carrier pigeon used by Mr. Kim to send messages and assignments to the Paper Sisters...
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    Lost Battalion (World War I) (category Use American English from August 2019)
    dispatched by Whittlesey either became lost or ran into German patrols, carrier pigeons became the only method of communicating with headquarters. In an infamous...
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  • to "them" Checks emails, phone log, the right to reply messages .... carrier pigeon cages Sorry who did you say this to?". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved...
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  • Sexton Blake bibliography part 2: 1912–1945 (category Use British English from February 2014)
    the Bank Anon. (A. Paterson) The Union Jack (2nd Series) 1,296 The Carrier Pigeon Conspiracy Anon. (H. H. Clifford Gibbons) The Union Jack (2nd Series)...
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    taught himself. His novel De autist en de postduif (The autist and the carrier-pigeon) won the EU Prize for Literature. He is also the author of Two Blankets...
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    Heliograph, Aldis lamp, semaphore flags, "Don R" (Dispatch Riders) and even carrier pigeons. Modern signallers are responsible for the battlefield voice and data...
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    Nathan Mayer Rothschild (category Use British English from March 2014)
    carrier pigeons". Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2019. "Enduring lessons from the legend of Rothschild's carrier pigeon"...
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  • from Seven Guitars and Stool Pigeon, a "sixty-five year old harmonica player...now a newspaper-collecting history carrier". The character of Ruby was a...
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    a Cobbler Ruled a King, by Augusta Huiell Seaman Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons, by Augusta Huiell Seaman Hans Brinker: or, the Silver Skates, by Mary...
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