A website visitor sent me these pictures. In two days, a pigeon youngster lost 90% of its feathers.
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THE FILM
For the past two years I have been documenting the men and women who continue to race homing pigeons in New York City. It’s a tradition that’s been passed down from generation to generation in the city for over a century. But every year, the community grows smaller and it’s likely that pigeon racing will disappear completely in the coming years.
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In the Barcelona International 2010 Pigeon Race there were a total of 25.878 pigeons from the following countries:
- Belgium 12.657
- Holland 7.016
- France 2.998
- Germany 1.957
- United Kingdom 670
- Poland 521
- Luxenbourg 59
The liberation was at 9:45 AM.
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I have always been fascinated by the attacks of the birds of pray on pigeons. Every new attack remains in your memory for years, some of them forever. The adrenaline of those moments is incredible and when the bird tricks the raptor and survives it gives you a great satisfaction. In this post I will collect movies with peregrine falcons attacking pigeons – only the best of them.
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Hi andrei; and fello pigeon fanciers: i really want to thank urself andrei for ur tips. you really gave me alot of help. if u dont mind just a couple of questions re ur 5 top tips, 1. re my loft and stock.etc i am currently in a rented house but we are moving into a new house council home where i will b building my own designed loft, young bird loft hens and cocks etc all seperated.
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Animal Planet will start filming a new TV SHOW, “Taking on Tyson“, a show about the world of racing pigeons!
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I loved this book. There’s a lot of good stuff in it and it definitely should be in your pigeon library. As we got used already, Ad comes with intriguing stuff on the pigeon racing sport and everything has a bit of fun which makes the lecture a real pleasure.

I couldn’t find the Table of Contents online when I was trying to buy the book so, here it is, you might want to know this first:
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WOW, I think the movie about Ad Schaerlaeckens rocks. I’m looking forward to seeing it!

Mr. Iustin Ciubotariu sent me the picture of one of his long distance pigeons that returned from a 800 Km race during the night, at 1:20 A.M. !

“The Nightflier” is a pigeon born in 2006.
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Eduard shares a very nice movie with us. It’s about his very tame pigeons. Here’s a wonderful black 2008 female from his loft which is very tame. She is paired, isn’t hungry and she is outside the loft, but still, she loves the fancier.
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