post pigeons

Muslims have generally had a great tradition of pigeons as carriers and a number of famous palaces and forts had pigeon holes built into the walls, to receive them back.

 

Are u remotely serious with that question? is that reasoning?

"Messenger pigeons were used as early as 1150 in Baghdad ^[2] and also later by Genghis Khan.

In 1850, Paul Reuter, who later founded Reuters press agency, used a fleet of over 45 pigeons to deliver news and stock prices between Brussels and Aachen. The outcome of the Battle of Waterloo was also first delivered by a pigeon to England.

Possibly the first regular air mail service in the world was Mr Howie's Pigeon-Post service from the Auckland New Zealand suburb of Newton to Great Barrier Island, starting in 1896. Certainly the world�s first 'airmail' stamps were issued for the Great Barrier Pigeon-Gram Service from 1898 to 1908. ^[3]

They were used extensively during World War I, and one homing pigeon, Cher Ami, was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for his heroic service in delivering 12 important messages, despite being shot once.

Eighty-two homing pigeons were dropped into Holland with the First Airborn Division Signals as part of Operation Market-Garden in World War II. The pigeons' loft was located in London which would have required them to fly 240 miles to deliver their messages.^[4]

Homing pigeons were still employed in the 21st century by certain remote police departments in Orissa state in eastern India to provide emergency communication services following natural disasters. In March 2002, it was announced that India's Police Pigeon Service messenger system in Orissa was to be retired."

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon}

 

We used to have pidgeons at home. Lots of them, as they are extremely hard to get rid of. When there were too much we would give them away to others, but they kept coming back. One time we gave away two small chicks with the father to take care of them. The father cared for them until they were big enough, and the came back to us, almost a month later. They are like boomerangs.

 

There are whole organisations of pigeon keepers who breed homing pidgeons for sport. They will take a lot of pidgeons to the other side of Europe and let them go, and whoever's pidgeon makes it home first wins. I've heard that a prizewinning homing pidgeon can be worth over 20.000 euros.

 

Look here: http://www.pigeon.org/promotion.php

The American Racing Pidgeon Union.

 

thats interesting but it is a bit difficult to take your pigeon from one place to the other to use it as a post messenger and if that somebody moved to an other place it couln't follow it any more

 

By the way cool pets you have