anybody know anything about homing pigeons?

[snake]

I was walking to the house from my mega-shop and spotted this pigeon by the back door of the house- it wasn't scared of humans and had a green band on one leg and a blue on the other. It walked over to my mega shop, walked around a bit, then crashed out in the corner on the floor. At night I closed him up in the shop because I figure he wasn't going anywhere at night anyway. This morning I let him out (he walked out on his own) and after walking around for about 5 min, he flew off... haven't seen him since. Guess he just needed a place to rest.

A friend I talked to said I was supposed to cut one of those bands off of his legs to see where he was from. Anyone know about homing pigeon protocol?

 

[94STXRanger]

No idea about any protocol, but we have some. The first ones we got we had to keep caged up. But all there offspring are like zeroed into the house. They will fly around during the day and off to who knows where. Then there are always back at the river lot just chillin on the bird cage.

 

[snake]

Pretty cool. They say you can take 'em a little ways off and they find their way home- take them farther and farther away and the same deal. Some of them can go quite a ways. Never had one visit before tho...

 

[AngryLepercon]

There is a guy up my way that has some. he drives about 50 miles to the city and lets them go and the birds actually beat him back home. He says that they drop them off farther and farther and see if they make it back home. It's a way of training them.

 

[odie1969]

i don't know much about them, but one guy I worked with raced them. I guess they meet up at a location usally a couple hundred miles away from home. let the birds go at one time, and I guess they have some kind of timer back at the coupe. the winner is the one that has the quickest time per mile. since not every body live the exact distance away from the starting area. so the gps how many exact miles it is then devide the time by miles.

 

[martin]

They don't fly at night, so if they can't make it home before sundown they have to find somewhere to rest. They will go hundreds perhaps thousands of miles to get home. If you had written down the numbers on the ring you could have traced the owner through one of your local pidgeon fanciers groups, perhaps even the internet.

 

[pillen140]

haha, pigeon fanciers.

 

[Ranger Dave (B25)]

...all I know is they taste like chicken...

 

[LearjetMinako]

Thats kinda of cool of a homing pigeon sleep crashing at your shop.

Had some kind of predetor bird, like a small hawk, fly into my work shop and crashed for the night in the pipes above. Found him the next morning on the floor resting. I just picked him up and set him in the nearest tree. He later flew away when the sun was up.