I’ve had a slight obession with them recently, is it possible?
Here in the Netherlands the “pigeon racing” sport is still relatively alive, but does have an aging target group. Pigeons are driven somewhere many miles anyway, (well km’s) and released, first home gets a price.
There are breeders and trainers etc.
Since you’ve been obsessed with them lately, have you seen Who Is Cletis Tout? Great film that features some carrier pigeon action and an unconventional cast.
happy cake day, ill take a look at it. Thanks!
if you’re really interested in pigeon behavior Rowan university in New Jersey has a pigeon lab for studying avian communication and cognition
Well, I’m in Ireland, but thanks anyway!
Send him a pigeon, duh!
A quick google and I found this: Irish Homing Union
So you definitely can’t go there easily but Gerald Hough is who does a lot of research on the abilities of homing pigeons and is available via email if you had specific questions
https://csm.rowan.edu/departments/psychology/research/aviancognition.html
Is his bio and email
I don’t know anything about it, so hopefully someone else has more experience, but I found this, so I assume the answer is yes.
Great, this is much cheaper than my original plan of laying 9 kilometers of copper wire. Thanks!
No. They’re extinct.
Do you mean passenger pigeon?
Gotta train new ones then.
