What do we get if we cross a woodpecker with a homing pigeon?
While my gait is small and bandied, I have always had a homing pigeon’s sense of direction, and for all its twists and turns, Rome had long been mapped inside my head.
The mystery of the homing pigeon is in how it navigates and how it finds home.
Researchers at Oxford University spent 10 years studying homing pigeons using global positioning satellite (GPS) and were stunned to find the birds often don't navigate by taking bearing from the sun.
The balloons often carried important people west, as well as homing pigeons which would return messages back to Paris.
"I first became rich selling homing pigeons," he explained.
Enough experiments have been done to decide that homing pigeons (and maybe other birds) seem to have a build-in clock.
It is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon.
A homing pigeon was sent forth to carry the message.
