The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica), selectively bred for its ability to find its way home over extremely long...
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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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Pigeon post is the use of homing pigeons to carry messages. Pigeons are effective as messengers due to their natural homing abilities. The pigeons are...
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Homing pigeons have long played an important role in war. Due to their homing ability, speed, and altitude, they were often used as military messengers...
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Due to their homing ability, pigeons have been used to deliver messages, including during the world wars. Despite this, city pigeons, which are feral...
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Columbidae (redirect from Pigeon)
Domestication of pigeons led to significant use of homing pigeons for communication, including war pigeons, such as the 32 pigeons who were awarded the...
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June 3, 1961) was a pigeon noted for his service in the United States Army Pigeon Service. The bird was one of the homing pigeons used during World War...
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King pigeon American Giant Runt Strasser pigeon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fancy pigeons. Domestic pigeon Homing pigeon List of pigeon breeds...
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"Shoresy" Billy, a Second World War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal Broad Arrow, a Second World War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal Canuck,...
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IP over Avian Carriers (redirect from Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol)
joke proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by birds such as homing pigeons. IP over Avian Carriers was initially described in RFC 1149 issued by...
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Cher Ami (category Individual domesticated pigeons)
(French for "dear friend", in the masculine) was a male homing pigeon who had been donated by the pigeon fanciers of Britain for use by the U.S. Army Signal...
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Julius Neubronner, who also used pigeons to deliver medications. A homing pigeon was fitted with an aluminium breast harness to which a lightweight time-delayed...
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of homing pigeons for communication and reconnaissance purposes. During World War II, the force consisted of 3,150 soldiers and 54,000 war pigeons, which...
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landmarks while swimming. However, this only works in familiar territory. Homing pigeons, for example, will often navigate using familiar landmarks, such as...
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of fancy pigeon. These pigeons are kept and bred for their aerial performance and for reproduction. Racing homers are a type of homing pigeon, trained...
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one of three homing pigeons for him to release, the same one pictured in the flyer in Avori's birdcage. If they select the correct pigeon, they could follow...
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colour). Today, the English Carrier is strictly a show pigeon, and is not the modern homing pigeon. Charles Darwin wrote of the Carrier in The Variation...
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moving object Homing (biology), the inherent ability of an animal to navigate towards an original location through unfamiliar areas Homing pigeon, a variety...
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emphasis on the usage of passenger pigeons during World War I and World War II. Founded as the American Homing Pigeon Institute (AHPI) in 1973, the current...
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Release dove (category Domestic pigeons)
weddings and funerals. However, releases usually use homing pigeons, as Barbary doves lack the homing instinct and will die if released into the wild. Albinism...
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Curious George (TV series) (redirect from Curious George's Home for Pigeons)
male homing pigeon, also cared for by the Doorman. His sense of direction is substandard, he is therefore often referred to as an "Almost-Homing Pigeon"....
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Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (redirect from The Homing Pigeons)
Schrödinger's Cat II: The Trick Top Hat (1980), and Schrödinger's Cat III: The Homing Pigeons (1981), each illustrating a different interpretation of quantum physics...
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species. In addition pigeons have unusual, perhaps unique, abilities to learn routes back to their home from long distances. This homing behaviour is different...
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Rock dove (redirect from Blue Rock Pigeon)
Numerous breeds of fancy pigeons of all sizes, colours, and types have been bred. Domesticated pigeons are used as homing pigeons as well as food and pets...
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Helmet Pigeons, a group of pigeon breeds Hessian Pouter (D/317) Hódmezövásárhelyer Show Crest Tumbler (H/959) Holle Cropper (NL/331) Homing Pigeon Horseman...
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Fleissner and colleagues found iron-based receptors in the upper beaks of homing pigeons, both seemingly connected to the animal's trigeminal nerve. Research...
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Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (redirect from Stop the Pigeon)
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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original article follows Sedona Murphy, a 13-year old-girl who raised homing pigeons in her South Boston backyard. Principal photography occurred in April...
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White Vision (category Individual domesticated pigeons)
number SURP.41.L.3089, was a female Second World War homing pigeon who served with the National Pigeon Service and was posted to No. 190 Squadron RAF. She...
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(given name), an American masculine given name Tyke (pigeon), a Second World War homing pigeon which was awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry in 1943...
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