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ISBN: 1476640564 9781476640563 1476680809 9781476680804 Year: 2020 Publisher: Jefferson, NC
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"For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for racing in the early 1800s, homing pigeons were later trained by pigeoneers to fly up to 60 mph for hundreds of miles, and served the United States for almost 75 years, through four wars on four continents. Barely weighing a pound, these extraordinary birds carried messages in and out of gas, smoke, exploding bombs and gunfire. They flew through jungles, deserts and mountains, not faltering even when faced with large expanses of ocean to cross. Sometimes they arrived nearly dead from wounds or exhaustion, refusing to give up until they reached their objective. This book is the first complete account of the remarkable service that homing pigeons provided for the American armed forces, from its fledgling beginnings after the Civil War to the birds' invaluable role in communications in every branch of the U. S. military through both World Wars and beyond. Personal narratives, primary sources and news articles tell the story of the pigeons' recruitment and training in the US, their deployment abroad and use on the home front."--
Homing pigeons --- War use --- History
ISBN: 2271059976 2271080495 Year: 2002 Publisher: CNRS Éditions
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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
ISBN: 1280305320 9786610305322 3540264329 3540223851 3642061184 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Springer,
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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
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