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edgie
Youngbird
Posts : 2398
Join date : 2013-01-21
| | Subject: long distance pigeon Tue Nov 22, 2016 8:58 pm | |
| here is one for you ,5400 miles -ichabo isle , w,africa to nine elms , London , (dropped dead one mile from loft) 55 days , liberated 1st june 1845 , owned by duke of wellington , 5,400 miles is approximate airline distance , but as a bird could not fly across the sahara desert the probable distance is about 7,000 miles some pigeon  |
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peel bros
Oldbird
Posts : 13064
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 59
Location : south shields
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:10 pm | |
| Takes some believing .fantastic |
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markevans
Youngbird
Posts : 3310
Join date : 2015-01-25
Age : 58
Location : Wolverhampton
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:11 pm | |
| Read that somewhere might have been in one of the books up stairs |
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oldstrain
Oldbird
Posts : 16300
Join date : 2011-01-03
Location : the magic roundabout
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:12 pm | |
| - markevans wrote:
- Read that somewhere might have been in one of the books up stairs
think I read it in one of the squills yearly paperbacks a while back some feat though |
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markevans
Youngbird
Posts : 3310
Join date : 2015-01-25
Age : 58
Location : Wolverhampton
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:14 pm | |
| Margret Murphy wife of Joe murphy had a bird fly over 1000 miles some years ago in one of the nationals NFC I think
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts : 14926
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 51
Location : Tipton
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:28 pm | |
| I have to agree with Edgie about the Duke of Wellington pigeon as I did it for my history project My teacher was amazed and gave me top mark it was the only time I enjoyed history Hated it any other time  |
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edgie
Youngbird
Posts : 2398
Join date : 2013-01-21
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:25 am | |
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edgie
Youngbird
Posts : 2398
Join date : 2013-01-21
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:39 am | |
| who says the modern strains are better ? makes you wonder ? I would not mind a bird like that in my stock loft |
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Lofty
Youngbird
Posts : 2008
Join date : 2015-10-07
Location : Swansea
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:47 am | |
| Incredible flying that, as you say , what a bird to have in the loft |
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halcanada
Youngbird
Posts : 4206
Join date : 2014-03-11
Age : 84
Location : Southern Ontario. Canada.
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:30 pm | |
| 1000 milers were flown here years ago. From Texas. |
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Don Webb
Oldbird
Posts : 14926
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 51
Location : Tipton
| | Subject: Re: long distance pigeon Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:55 pm | |
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