Re: Racing pigeons Lost

"Onorio Catenacci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > 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.
>
>
> --
> Onorio Catenacci
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We are in direct sight of a cellphone tower, and next door to Civil Defence
with their radio aerials. but the neighbourhood white garden pigeons still
find their way here to steal my doves' food.
I wave a broom at them when they try to land, they are slowly getting the
message. Better than electronics!

I have had one lost racing pigeon arrive here, but he was a very young bird
who had recently been moved to a new loft. We found his owner through his
ring. A beautiful bird bred for long-distance flight, so I hope he won
plenty of races.

Geopelia