The homing pigeon, also called the mail pigeon or messenger pigeon, is a variety of domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica) derived from the wild rock...

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

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

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...

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

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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...

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...

(French for "dear friend", in the masculine) was a male homing pigeon who had been donated by the pigeon fanciers of Britain for use by the U.S. Army Signal...

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

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...

joke 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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"....

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

they rely on the Sun when possible. William Tinsley Keeton showed that homing pigeons could similarly make use of a range of navigational cues, including...

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

quantified in the homing pigeon which has particularly good long distance navigation skills. The precise relevance of such signals for the pigeon is still unknown...

2004-04-01. Retrieved 2013-11-29. Blanchard, Lucy M, Chico, The story of a Homing Pigeon in the Great War (Diggory Press), ISBN 978-1-84685-039-4 Cooper, Jilly...

(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...

He also participated in an exhibition of wartime homing pigeons. List of individual birds "Pigeon's war medal up for auction". BBC News. 26 October 2004...