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• Pigeon Entrepreneur
• Pigeon Tracking
• Pigeon English?
• Fake Pigeon Story
• Bread Statue - Popular with Pigeons
• Interesting Facts about Pigeons

Pigeon Entrepreneur

Did you hear about the man who became a millionaire with one homing pigeon?

He sold it for a dollar and it kept coming home a million times!

The Pigeon Entrepreneur's Sign

Feed a pigeon, lose a finger. 

Pigeon Tracking

Reported by Reuters News Agency [London] on February 1 that a flock of pigeons fitted with mobile phone backpacks is to be used to monitor air pollution over the skies of San Jose, California. The idea is the brainchild of researcher Beatriz da Costa, of the University of California at Irvine, and two of her students.

Each of 20 birds will be released in August 2006 and carry a GPS satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic mobile ' phone, capable of detecting carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.

Text messages on air quality will be beamed back in real time to a special pigeon 'blog', a journal accessible on the Internet. Miniature cameras slung around the pigeons' necks will also post aerial pictures. The data they send back will be displayed on the blog in the form of an interactive map.

Pigeon English?

The baby pigeon complained to his mother before flying a long distance, 'I can't make it, I'll get too tired.'

His mother replied, 'Don't worry, I'll tie a piece of string to one of your legs and the other end to mine.'

The baby started to cry.

'What's wrong?' asked the mother sympathetically.

'I don't want to end up being pigeon towed.'

Fake Pigeon Story

Will and Guy bring you the story behind the pigeon story.  Zhang Liang, apologized for his 'bad behavior' when he forged a picture of pigeons receiving bird flu vaccine shots from medical workers.

Amazingly this picture won first prize in the 2005 China International Press Photo Contest.  'I would like to apologize to the public,' said Liang, who was dismissed from Harbin Daily.

He copied the pigeon in the top right corner of his photo and pasted it in the top left corner.

'I did it to make the photo perfect,' Zhang was quoted as saying. 'It was the first time for me to perfect pictures with computer technology and I did it only once.'

Bread Statue - Popular with Pigeons

A statue of a woman made out of bread is proving popular with pigeons in a park in Santiago, Chile.

Constanza Puente's latest work is a life size self portrait of the 6 foot tall artist.

Las Ultimas Noticias, reports that her bread sculpture is on public display in the grounds of the Chilean capital city's Catholic University Extension Centre.

St Mark's Square Venice - Unpopular with Pigeons

The mayor of Venice, Italy had a tricky decision to make.  Pigeon feeding in St. Mark's Square had become a tradition, and supported an industry of supplying and selling grain to feed the birds.  However, the pigeon droppings and their pecking at statues to get the last seed was causing damage to the fabric of the city.

Dealing with the pigeon problem is part of a bigger plan to improve decorum and cleanliness in St Mark's Square.  Tourist who litter can also be fined.  They are also told to cover up and not to walk around bare-chested.

The mayor's decision was to ban the sale and distribution of grain to feed the birds.  Those who ignore his ban ban will be fined 50 euros  It is estimated that cleaning the monuments and repairing the damage caused by pigeons was costing each Venetian taxpayer 250 euros each year. 

Will and Guy hope that other cities take Venice's example and try and reduce the pigeon populations which are solely sustained by people feeding them scraps.

Interesting Facts about Pigeons

• In bygone times there was an industry in using carrier pigeons as messengers.  The military rules of the Middle East first developed this communication method.  And messenger pigeons were still used in World War II. 
• This ability lives on in some areas in the form of racing homing pigeons.  It's hard to believe, but pigeons can reach 100mph in flight.
• Other members of the Rock Pigeon have been selectively bred for the 'Dove Ceremonies' that you occasionally see at weddings or funerals.
• Like many birds, the male is the cock and the female the hen, however, their offspring are interesting because they are called squabs, singular squab. 
• In some parts of the world there is a whole industry in raising squabs for their meat - it tastes like chicken!

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