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...

Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The time...

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...

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...

Due to their homing ability, pigeons have been used to deliver messages, including during the world wars. Despite this, city pigeons, which are feral...

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...

functional 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...

King pigeon American Giant Runt Strasser pigeon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fancy pigeons. Domestic pigeon Homing pigeon List of pigeon breeds...

Domestication of pigeons led to significant use of homing pigeons for communication, including war pigeons, such as the 32 pigeons who were awarded the...

homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal Billy, a Second World War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal Broad Arrow, a Second World War homing pigeon...

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...

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...

Cher Ami (French for "dear friend", in the masculine) was a male homing pigeon known for his military service during World War I, especially the Meuse-Argonne...

to select, focus and simultaneously engage multiple targets. Homing pigeon Infrared homing Missile guidance  This article incorporates public domain material...

with emphasis on the usage of homing pigeons during World War I and World War II. Founded as the American Homing Pigeon Institute (AHPI) in 1973, the...

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...

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...

species. In addition pigeons have unusual, perhaps unique, abilities to learn routes back to their home from long distances. This homing behaviour is different...

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...

moving object Homing (biology), the inherent ability of an animal to navigate towards an original location through unfamiliar areas Homing pigeon, a variety...

is one of the premier areas for pigeon racing and hosts the Gulfcoast Homing Club, a group that races homing pigeons and hosts an annual Gulfcoast Classic...

Fleissner and colleagues found iron-based receptors in the upper beaks of homing pigeons, both seemingly connected to the animal's trigeminal nerve. Research...

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...

landmarks while swimming. However, this only works in familiar territory. Homing pigeons, for example, will often navigate using familiar landmarks, such as...

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"....

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...

(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...

an April Fools' Day RFC describing the transmission of messages via homing pigeon. Air gap (networking) Darknet Data Mule IP over Avian Carriers Jargon...

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...

Helmet Pigeons, a group of pigeon breeds Hessian Pouter (D/317) Hódmezövásárhelyer Show Crest Tumbler (H/959) Holle Cropper (NL/331) Homing Pigeon Horseman...