Re: Racing pigeons Lost

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I have been racing pigeons for over 35 years now and have never seen so
> meny birds lost in the training and racig.I have come to the conclusion
> that it has to do with the earth climate change ad the micro-wave towers
> for celler phones.I was ready an artical on how the russian government
> used micro waves to disrupt phone calls in our government builds such as
> te F.B.I and the C.I.A head quarters during the cold war.Would not the
> sae thing make our homing pigeons stray off course and sramble there
> ability to home.This is just a my opinion and If anyone has a better one
> let us hear it ok. 
Hi Horace,

I'm cross-posting my reply to rec.pets.birds.pigeons because I think 
they may be interested in this discussion too.

I've heard that about cell phone towers causing birds to get lost but I 
have to say I have my doubts about a cause-effect relationship between 
one and the other.  I think cell-phones have greater penetration in 
Europe than they have in the U. S.  and I've not heard European fanciers 
making the same complaint.  Of course that may be the fact that they 
aren't as vocal on usenet.  I would be curious if any of our European 
cousins can confirm if they're losing more birds and if they could 
confirm if they have high cell-phone penetration in Europe.

I would like to hear if anyone has collected statistics on races and how 
many birds have been lost in various conditions.  Perhaps one could 
prove a correlation between one and the other.

Of course, even if a cause-effect relationship between cell-phones and 
lost pigeons could be proved there's little we could do other than race 
our birds on different routes.  The cell-phones are here and they're not 
going away.


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