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Admin
Admin
Posts: 284
Join date: 2009-03-11
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IANYOUNG
Oldbird
Posts: 10451
Join date: 2009-03-30
Age: 48
Location: south shields
| | Subject: pigeon tracking Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:56 pm | |
| Pigeon Trackingpigeon blog
Reported by Reuters News Agency [London] on February 1 that a flock of pigeons fitted with mobile phone backpacks is to be used to monitor air pollution over the skies of San Jose, California. The idea is the brainchild of researcher Beatriz da Costa, of the University of California at Irvine, and two of her students.
Each of 20 birds will be released in August 2006 and carry a GPS satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic mobile ' phone, capable of detecting carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.
Text messages on air quality will be beamed back in real time to a special pigeon 'blog', a journal accessible on the Internet. Miniature cameras slung around the pigeons' necks will also post aerial pictures. The data they send back will be displayed on the blog in the form of an interactive map. |
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 39
Location: Tipton
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:08 pm | |
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 39
Location: Tipton
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:09 pm | |
| Pigeons helped win the war |
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 39
Location: Tipton
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:09 pm | |
| Now helping with big brother |
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Lightning
Hatchling
Posts: 945
Join date: 2009-10-02
Age: 38
Location: Hungerford
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:19 pm | |
| will be fascinating seeing some of the pics (specially if harry hawk is about), to what they do  |
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David
Oldbird
Posts: 18924
Join date: 2009-03-17
Location: Leeds
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:03 pm | |
| yes i agree lightening mc, it would be good to see whats happening as they flying.......  |
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 39
Location: Tipton
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:24 pm | |
| Spot on with your comments |
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 39
Location: Tipton
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:25 pm | |
| Lets hope with evidence of hawk attacks this may help our pigeons in the future |
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David
Oldbird
Posts: 18924
Join date: 2009-03-17
Location: Leeds
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:45 pm | |
| even the conservationists are coming out now don and admitting there are too many of them and they are out of control.......  |
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 39
Location: Tipton
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:07 am | |
| Must say had cracked 2 by Ronny Bigwood and in this film he films a hawk attacking a pigeon |
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peel bros
Youngbird
Posts: 4819
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 47
Location: south shields
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:41 pm | |
| must be strong birds to carry all that |
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peel bros
Youngbird
Posts: 4819
Join date: 2009-03-27
Age: 47
Location: south shields
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:41 pm | |
| shoot them  |
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dark_chequer
Hatchling
Posts: 786
Join date: 2009-04-15
Location: SUNDERLAND
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IANYOUNG
Oldbird
Posts: 10451
Join date: 2009-03-30
Age: 48
Location: south shields
| | Subject: Re: Bricon..... Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:40 pm | |
| Pigeons monitor air pollution
Twenty pigeons equipped with mobile phone backpacks are to be used to monitor air pollution in California.
The birds' backpacks will contain a basic mobile phone, a GPS satellite tracking receiver and air pollution sensors.
Automatic text messages on air quality will be transmitted in real time to a special pigeon online journal.
Miniature cameras slung around the birds' necks will also send aerial pictures to produce interactive pollution maps online.
Researcher Beatriz da Costa, of the University of California at Irvine, and two of her students came up with the unusual idea.
The team have built a prototype of the pigeons' equipment and plan to fit all the components onto a single board small enough to be carried in a backpack by the birds.
"We are combining an air pollution sensor with a home-made cellphone," da Costa told New Scientist.
The flock of 20 techno-pigeons are set to be released into the skies of San Jose on 5 August at the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts' annual meeting. |
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The N.E.H.U race from Melton Mowbray 21/4/2012 was won by Peel bros of South Shields, they took 1st club 1st fed, also taking 2nd and 4th club and 15 of the 25 birds clocked in the club......well done Peel brothers.
