Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Excerpt from Our Domestic Birds In this first book the object is to tell in plain language the things that every one ought to know about poultry, pigeons, and cage birds; to teach fundamental facts in such a way that they will be fixed in the mind; to excite interest in the subject where none existed; and to direct enthusiasm along right lines. While the demand has been almost wholly for a poultry book, pigeons and cage birds are included, because they are of more interest than some kinds of poultry and better adapted than any other kind to the conditions of city life.

Poultry. --- Pigeons. --- Cage birds.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The pigeon has played a central role in Islam from the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate (late VIIIth century). From the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates which were undoubtedly the cradle, it reached the East as well as the West (Andalus and Sicily). But no state attached more value to it than that of the Mameluks which covered the Empire with a dense network of dovecotes, from the banks of the Euphrates in northern Syria to the Red Sea in Egypt. These air messengers served the sovereigns, in time of war, as in time of peace for sometimes unforeseen ends: winged couriers carried freshly picked cherries to Damascus to treat the Fatimid Caliph Azîz in Cairo and spare him the unnecessary trouble of 'a long trip. However, they risked, despite their loyalty, to violate the secrets entrusted to their guard to deliver them to the enemy, if they fell into his hands. The intercepted banknotes could then be replaced by forgeries, which, instead of rekindling the ardour in the walls, brought desolation there, even if a rescue army came running to save them from peril. Flying messengers have also served individuals, since the advent of the Abbasids: lovers entrusted them with soft tickets; the sects learned through them the facts which had occurred in distant regions, before the fame, with its swift wings, spread the rumour. The merchants had to draw fruit from the secrets entrusted to their wings from the end of the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment: those of Baghdad were thus instructed in the course of the riches of the Indies landed in the Persian Gulf and could speculate at leisure before their arrival. On return trips, long-distance pigeons commonly covered 800 to 1,000 kilometres. A few off-line bottom birds even exceeded 2,000, returning from Pergamon and Constantinople to Basra or from Tunis to Cairo. These feats were not equalled, then largely exceeded in the West in the second half of the 19th century.th century and the threshold of the XX th , when the lost secrets of the East were found after a huge oversight.

Homing pigeons --- Communication --- Pigeons voyageurs --- History --- Histoire --- Pigeon post --- History. --- Islamic countries --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Animal Sciences --- islam --- Égypte --- Empire abbasside --- Bagdad --- colombophilie --- Iraq --- pigeon voyageur --- COLOMBOPHILIE --- PIGEONS VOYAGEURS --- TRANSPORTS ET COMMUNICATIONS --- CIVILISATION ISLAMIQUE --- HISTOIRE

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a century. Profound advances towards a solution of this problem have been achieved with a model bird, the homing pigeon. This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas.

Bird navigation. --- Birds --- Homing pigeons. --- Migration. --- Carrier pigeons --- Homers (Birds) --- Pigeons --- Migratory birds --- Navigation by birds --- Animal navigation --- Navigation --- Animal behavior. --- Animal ecology. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Animals --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior --- Behavioral sciences. --- Behavior, animal --- Homing behavior --- Columbidae --- physiology

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Informers --- Informants (Criminal investigation) --- Police informers --- Stool pigeons --- Complaints (Criminal procedure) --- Crime prevention --- Criminal investigation --- Prosecution --- State's evidence --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Snitches (Informers) --- Persons

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Taylor traces the life of Paul Crouch (1903-1955), an infamous paid informant for the federal government during the McCarthy era. Taylor not only highlights Crouch's unusual life, but also examines the dangers of ideologues.

Anti-communist movements --- Communism --- Cold War --- Communists --- Informers --- World politics --- Informants (Criminal investigation) --- Police informers --- Stool pigeons --- Complaints (Criminal procedure) --- Crime prevention --- Criminal investigation --- Prosecution --- State's evidence --- History --- Crouch, Paul, --- Snitches (Informers) --- Persons