STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Homing pigeons -- those birds with the remarkable ability to find their way home over vast distances -- have fascinated city-dwellers for over half-a-century. Decades ago, the ...
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD:Yes, it is true; CECOM's early history was for the birds… pigeons to be exact. Pigeons were vital to military communications during war and in peacetime. While pigeons had ...
Whether he was training pigeons to serve in World War II or sorting chicks, riding a bucking bronco or calling for bids at a livestock auction, Ed Schmidt's long life has often revolved around animals ...
It sounds like something the Flintstones would do: Send a super-fast message, tie it to a bird’s leg and let go. Amazingly, this works — as long as the bird is a trained homing pigeon. And it’s not ...
Tustin residents often halted their daily routines to watch a U.S. Navy blimp land or take off from the Lighter-Than-Air Base in south Tustin during the mid-40s. Once a thousand acres of beans farmed ...
The homing ability of a group of pigeons raised under conditions of continuous exposure to wind-borne information was compared to that of another group subjected to exposure to winds only during the ...
A group of experienced homing pigeons was subjected to a 6 h slow shift of their internal clock and kept under these conditions for more than 2 months. During the overlap time between the natural and ...
SIOUX FALLS | The bird is under a wire basket in some grassy cover on an acreage west of Sioux Falls. About a dozen paces distant, Greta, a gorgeous 10-year-old German wirehair, is scenting around, ...
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HERKIMER, N.Y. — At 6:35 a.m., under a blood-red sky, 1,075 pigeons sip water in a ventilated trailer in the Wal-Mart parking lot before the Greater Boston Homing Pigeon Concourse race to Boston. They ...
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD:Yes, it is true; CECOM's early history was for the birds… pigeons to be exact. Pigeons were vital to military communications during war and in peacetime. While pigeons had ...
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