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The Pigeon Cote Presents:
the Dovecotes of England. Here you will find a complete annotated
version of Cooke's Book of Dovecotes. Here is a site you can
visit time and again with some great colored photography of many of the
cotes. |
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The Lancaster National Pigeon Show
Slide Show: Every year the National Pigeon Association puts on
a pigeon show of national scope. It is the largest pigeon show in the
States with thousands of pigeons in hundreds of breeds competing for the
top honors. |
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Pigeon Color Slide Show:
Introduction to pigeon colors, the first pigeon slide show on the web. |
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 Scientific American in its July 12th issue, presented an article about carrier pigeons being used by the French army eventhough the wireless telegraph had become available. The Hertzian waves as it was called then was still considered a bit new fangled and unreliable, while the pigeons had proven themselves over the centuries. |
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Everyone
knows about pigeons. Or at least they think they do. If you live in a city,
you've seen them flocking in parks, posing on statues, fluttering above busy
streets. In the country, they strut along barn roofs, scratch in fields,
and perform amazing aerial feats to elude hawks and other predators. Other
pigeons loiter at suburban bird feeders. |
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National Geographic: June 1913.
Pigeon Whistles.
A
brand new site covering pigeon whistles. |
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National Geographic: January
1926. Man's Feathered Friends of Longest Standing.
A must read pigeon article! |
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Parchuting Pigeons Now Serve
With U. S. Paratroopers: Dropped in wire baskets or strapped to soldiers'
chests, carrier pigeons fly messages back to headquarters when radio or runners
cannot be used |
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Bird Lore was published six times per year for the National Audubon Society.
It featured articles about different bird species, with photographs and beautiful
color plates. The volume featured here, for March-April 1913, has four
articles about the Passenger Pigeon. At that time, there was one known
specimen left.
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Read this most interesting
article about the beginning of racing Homing Pigeons in the
States: The Century Magazine: July 1886 |
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Weak
Brain? Eat canned squab |
