by johnnymarin | Sep 10, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
SAFFORD — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is offering a free clinic and workshop for youth dove hunting Sept. 1-2 in Safford.
The event is geared toward youths who are first-time hunters. Game and Fish wildlife managers and local sportsmen will teach hunting and firearm safety, dove ecology and management, species identification, how to prepare equipment and clothing for a hunt, where to find doves and how to hunt them, as well as cleaning and cooking doves.
Participants will meet at 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 1, at Dry Lake Park, 250 E. 2760 W. Dry Lake Road, Safford, after which youth hunters will be able to practice shooting clay pigeons at the trap range, free of charge, shotguns and shells included. Coaches will be available to provide instruction, as well as range safety information and techniques.
The program includes a dove hunt for participants the morning of Saturday, Sept. 2, in the Safford area with an experienced mentor/hunter. Parents are encouraged to accompany the youth hunters. Shotguns and ammunition will be available, but participants may also bring their own.
Participants will need to provide for their own transportation to the hunting area, unless prior arrangements are made. The Southeastern Arizona Sportsmen Club will provide lunch after the morning event.
Attendance is free but limited to 20 young hunters ages 9 to 15 with an adult partner. Hunters will be registered by phone or e-mail on a first-come, first-served basis.
Participants age 10 and older must purchase a valid Arizona youth hunting license ($5), which is not required for those under 10 hunting with a licensed adult 18 and older.
There is no cost to young hunters because of generous contributions from the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Southeastern Arizona Sportsmen Club and the hunting community.
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by johnnymarin | Sep 8, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
A CHURCH is on a wing and a prayer mission to help give a pair of the country’s most feared birds of ‘pray’ a claw onto the housing ladder.
A total of £3,500 of council taxpayers’ money is being spent to provide a nestbox for a pair of peregrine falcons that have set up home on the tower of St Mary Magdalene Church, in Taunton.
The church has to raise a similar amount for the project, which also involves the installation of a webcam to give people a bird’s eye view of goings on in the nest if the falcons breed next year.
The peregrines have been a talking point in the town since they arrived earlier this summer and bred their chicks.
The vicar of St Mary’s, the Rev Rod Corke, said: “It’s great news and will provide a base for the birds and a webcam so that hopefully we’ll be able to put a feed down to the coffee shop and onto our website if they return to breed again next year.
“There’s evidence that they’ve been chasing off pigeons and seagulls with feathers all over the vicarage lawn. It’s a natural help to us to control the gull and pigeon population.”
The pair of birds – one from Bath, the other from Exeter – are believed to be the first ringed ones in the country to have had young.
St Mary’s has recently undertaken two major fundraising projects – one to replace the old bells, the other, which is ongoing, to repair the organ.
“That means we really have no funders, so we’re going to apply for some more grants,” said Mr Corke.
“If anybody wants to make a contribution they should contact the church.”
The council cash comes from tax levied on the unparished area of Taunton which is targeted at town-specific, community-focused groups and projects.
Cllr Jane Warmington, Taunton Deane Borough Council’s executive member for community leadership, said: “The falcons have become an attraction in their own right and, if they return as expected to St Mary’s, they would have somewhere to nest and rear young.
“The webcam will give people a chance to watch these beautiful birds without disturbing them.
“Of course, there is the practical point that the falcons will help control pigeons and gulls that can be a nuisance.”
The agreed funding will be released once the balance has been raised by the church.
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by johnnymarin | Sep 6, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — When you think of pigeons, the first thing that comes to mind is probably not, “world class athlete.”
“People know ’em as ‘rats of the sky’ and things like that. Sitting down on the buildings downtown and pooping on people,” Paul Rudolph said. “Pigeons have gotten such a bad rap over the years.”
But among a small group of people here in the Twin Cities, these birds simply inspire awe.
“It’s an enjoyable sport,” Rudolph said.
Competing in a sport most people have probably never heard of.
“It’s like having a kite, with no string,” Rudolph said.
Pigeon racing.
“Yeah, most people I run into, don’t have a clue on it,” Rudolph said.
Race day begins before sunrise. On this Saturday morning, the release point is just across the Iowa border, just south of Albert Lea.
Rudolph works to get everything prepared. There is a starting gate, if you will, but the unique thing about pigeon racing is the finish line is different places all over the Twin Cities, since the birds use their homing instinct to fly back to their own coop.
There are about 60 pigeon racers in the Twin Cities, and in this trailer, about 1,500 birds.
This race is only about 100 miles, but others are as long as 600.Then, at the designated moment, the race begins.
“They average about 50 miles an hour, but if they get a tailwind, 85, 90 miles an hour,” Rudolph said. “And on some of the long races, when you think them birds been pumping them wings for 15 hours, that’s pretty impressive.”
This race will only take a couple hours.
In the meantime, at coops like Rudolph’s in Maplewood, it’s a waiting game.
The winner of this race is going to win by how much?
“Seconds. Seconds. If that bird just pauses for one second, you lost the race. Just that quick,” Rudolph said.
How that’s measured is high-tech.
“These are what we call antennas. And as the bird walks over, he has a little chip band on his leg, like this, that triggers the clock,” Rudolph said.
Since they finish in different places, a calculation must be done — total time divided by total distance — to determine an average speed. The fastest is the winner.
“In time you find the birds that can do the distance, do the tough stuff, and so you naturally mate them together and you weed out the ones that don’t. And, ah, sell ’em to somebody else,” Rudolph said.The keys to this sport are breeding and training — actually a lot like horseracing.
Is there prize money?
“There’s some. But it’s so minute,” Rudolph said.
It’s not a sport you do for the money. It’s for the love of the game.
“When I see a bird come home from a four, five, six hundred mile race, and you think of the hours that bird was on the wing,” Rudolph said. “You can take ’em 600 miles and they’ve never been there, you turn ’em loose and they come home? Pretty amazing. I don’t know what other animal can do it.”
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by johnnymarin | Sep 4, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
A SCHOOL’S pigeon-racing team has hit the heights to win a 120-mile race.
Longshaw Junior School, from Park Lee Road in Blackburn raced against 15 other competitors from the Oswaldwistle Homing Society in the Tewkesbury race and flew past all of their competitors to take first place.
Before the race pigeons are taken to be marked and prepared for the race and then taken to a liberation point.
They are then liberated together and then fly back to their home lofts and the one with the highest velocity, speed at yards per minute, wins the race.
The winning pigeon travelled the fastest of the other 266 pigeons sent out, flying at 50mph, and obtained the highest velocity.
Seven-year-old Lawson Berry and father Jonathan Berry, who is the deputy headmaster at the school, were two members of the team.
The 40-year-old deputy head said: “Our pigeon had the fastest time and the highest velocity.
“Some competitors have 40 years’ experience in pigeon racing so it’s quite an achievement.
“My son is going to start pigeon racing next year. He said to me he wants his own cabin now. He is absolutely addicted.
“When you ask some people about pigeon racing they will say they’ve never even heard of it as a sport.
“This animal race is unique because these birds are not pets. They are doing a job for you. It’s a sport.
“They are very hard to control and the only way you can at the start is with food.”
Pigeon Fancying is now part of the Park Lee Road school’s curriculum.
The school has committed itself to promoting the sport of racing pigeons to other schools and has been supported by the local authority who are keen to promote the educational benefits associated with the sport.
Mr Berry added: “The first thing to do is to make people aware. Our school is one of the only ones in the country involved in pigeon racing.”
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by johnnymarin | Sep 2, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
Dove season opens hunting in the state beginning Sept. 2 and runs through three splits in our South Zone — Sept. 2-10, Oct. 7-Nov. 26 and Dec. 17-Jan. 15.
There are seven dove species in Louisiana, five of them legal to bag — mourning dove, Eurasian collared-dove, ringed-turtle dove, white-winged dove and the rock dove (pigeon).
The two that are protected are the common ground dove and the Inca dove.
Most abundant is the mourning dove which likes the open fields. We see more white-winged doves in neighborhoods. I live behind the McNeese State football stadium and have about two dozen that greet me every morning when I go out to feed birds.
Most of the white-wings are seen Southwest and Southeast of Central Louisiana.
The collared doves are statewide and the turtle doves are statewide but spotty.
This year the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has put a restriction on hunters using the Wildlife Management Areas and the departments leased fields.
They will only be allowed to use a non-toxic shot, size 6 and smaller for hunting.
The official news release from the LDWA reads: “The change is intended to reduce the deposition of lead shot and potential effects of lead on wildlife. Current research has demonstrated that in dove fields and areas surrounding dove fields, deposition of lead is high and concentration of lead is elevated in the soil.
“The regulation was proposed and adopted in order to mitigate the potential exposure of lead to wildlife in areas impacted by this activity.”
As for WMAs, there are none in the immediate area but Kori Legleu, a biologist with the local LDWA office, said the department will have several area dove field leases for the season.
“We probably won’t know for sure until about a week before the season begins,” she said.
Legleu noted that the leased fields will be in the DeRidder and Ragley areas.
She said hunters will be charged $10 each to hunt the leased fields per day and will have to check in at the site, noting that this is an opportunity for those who don’t have a place to hunt.
Hunters can go on the LDWF website to find out more on the leased fields.
Maps of these fields will also be available at the local LDWA headquarters.
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by johnnymarin | Aug 30, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
New Delhi: Agrasen Ki Baoli, the famous monument located on Hailey Road near Connaught Place in New Delhi, is in need of restoration. The architectural building has turned into a residing place for bats and pigeons. One is only able to hear the gurgling sound of pigeons, and the squeaky chatter of bats echoing. Presently, Agrasen Ki Baoli has become a hub for couples who wish to spend some quality time together.
The Baoli used to have water earlier that has dried up in recent times. One can still see the bed of the reservoir that is filled with the feathers of birds and droppings. The silence deepens as one moves to the bottom of the stairs as the light of the day fades, making visitors feel as though they are in a place that is haunted.
Agrasen Ki Baoli is one of the popular tourist sites among the visitors in Delhi. The architectural building was originally built by Maharaja Agrasen, in the Mahabharat era, and later rebuilt by the Agrawal community in the 14th century, probably during the Tughlaq period.
The architectural monument is currently protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and has a mammoth board indicating it’s national importance. The monument is divided into four levels with a flight of 108 steep steps leading down to the well. The steps are flanked by thick walls on both the sides with two series of arched niches at the first top and second levels.
The withering condition of the walls and the stinky water shed area calls for immediate restoration of the monument. The condition of the monument is getting worst with each passing day. However, this lofty monument that is considered haunted manages to attract tourists in the capital. The filthy black water is said to have an evil charm, has hypnotising people to their death by alluring them to jump in the reservoir.
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Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
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