On Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st January 2018, the Royal Pigeon Racing Association will celebrate the 46th British Homing World Show of the Year at The Winter Gardens in Blackpool.
The British Homing World Show of the Year is the largest of its kind in Europe. Pigeon Fanciers from across the UK will flock to Blackpool with over 2,000 homing pigeons.
This year, the exhibition even boasts 120 trade stands for the attendees.
The event has been held at Winter Gardens in the iconic Empress Ballroom for 41 years and this year it is expected to be hugely popular.
Ian Evans, General Manager of the RPRA comments: “2018 marks the 46th anniversary of the show. This is a huge event in our calendar and it always proves to be popular amongst attendees. Pigeon racing is not simply just a hobby for the fancying community. For many, the past time helps people to stay active and social. The population of pigeon fanciers is made up of those from all different backgrounds and the event is a great chance for our members to enjoy a weekend away together. It is such a delight to host such an amazing show and gather our members and their birds all in one place providing them the opportunity of companionship and friendship.”
Aside from the enjoyment it produces for the pigeon fanciers, the show itself also generates £10 million for the local economy and has contributed nearly £3 million for various charities.
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It seems like this bird is the hardest avian party-goer ever: the morning after New Year’s Eve celebrations, it was found resting its forehead against the rear window of a car.
On New Year’s Day, a resident of Vladikavkaz, Russia, walked to his car to find a pigeon asleep on his rear window. The man spoke to the bird gently, as though talking to a friend the morning after the excesses of New Year. “Hey, bro! Wake up, bro! Are you alright?” he asked the pigeon. Several seconds later, the pigeon finally came to senses and flew away.
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Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
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If elk may join our black tails as representatives of the deer family in Butte County, it is unlikely that the largest deer species of all will join them.
The moose (Alces alces gigas, Alaska), at about 1,400 pounds, 6.9 feet at the shoulder, with 79-inch, 79-pound antlers, is the largest of the 41 species of deer in the world. There’s no place to put them in heavily populated California, where the large Roosevelt elk is trying to maintain an existence.
Moose are now found mostly in Canada where there may be a million, but in Colonial days they were plentiful in the Northeast states where they thrived in forested wetlands. The settlers named them elk in reference to European moose that were called elk. It was 1606 before that confusion was cleared up.
By 1870, less than 20 percent of moose habitat remained, and by 1980 only about 100 moose were present in those Atlantic states. Restocking and protection has allowed a surge, and Maine now leads the way with about 76,000 moose.
My home state of Missouri had vast losses of deer, beaver, turkey, otter, and passenger pigeons before a conservation program was created, and many species have been restocked, except for the pigeons that are gone forever.
That story of carelessness with natural resources was prevalent for a lot of species before conservation laws were established. It chills nature advocates to see the greed and thoughtlessness apparent in mankind when uncontrolled use of natural resource choices reign. Governmental administrations presently in 2018 are somewhat similar in attitude.
I know a few moose still exist in Yellowstone National Park where I had my moose encounter. I saw one feeding on the other side of the river and rushed down to take a picture, but the monster didn’t like it — and began swimming toward me! I beat a hasty retreat.
The great palm-shaped antlers are very impressive. Moose are rather sassy, and aside from hippopotamus, injure more people than any other animal in the world, even bears and wolves combined. Behind bison, moose are the second largest land animal in North America and Europe, and the only solitary member of the deer family.
Imagine climbing into the scenic autumnal mountains of Alaska above timberline to hunt a moose. My cousin Albert Tolle’s son Curt Tolle retired from the Navy to the island of Kodiak, Alaska, and has become a big game hunter and outdoor fan, accustomed to hunting the Alaskan mainland mountains for moose since there are none on Kodiak.
Curt expresses extreme appreciation for the wilderness of the far north, describing the grandeur of timberline country in the fall as “the most beautiful place on earth.” Curt said, “Moose are by far one of my favorite animals to watch — very majestic and noble and I feel more than a bit of remorse when I take one, but no meat goes to waste and we are always thankful to fill the freezer with beautiful fresh chemical-free protein.” That rings of Missouri farm life in the 1940s.
Curt remembered my interest in geology, and gathered a box of colorful specimens from a high elevation mountain for mailing. Rocks of the world, like animals of the world, are indications of distant habitats pinning the world together and telling a story of faraway places.
I’ll never get to all those wonderlands, but I see samples through rocks and pictures, and believe they exist. I believe man has been to the moon and saw no moose there! It’s called faith with little evidence.
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe … The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly. It is always sunrise somewhere.”
— John Muir
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Residents guilty of minor offences are being targeted by an order originally brought in by then Home Secretary Theresa May to clamp down on serious antisocial behaviour.
But an investigation by Mail Online reveals some councils are using the Community Protection Notice to target householders for petty misdemeanours such as feeding birds or listening to the radio loudly.
Since it was introduced in 2014 breaching a CPN is a criminal offence and can result in a court appearance and fine of up to £2,500.
One victim was grandmother Rose Rodell, who was told she would risk a criminal record if she continued to feed pigeons in her pwn council house garden – and anywhere else in the seaside town of Sidmouth in Devon.
The grandma of four eventually came to an agreement with the council to restrict her activities.
“I felt sick and sad when they told me I couldn’t feed the birds,” said the 72-year-old.
“I’m not a horrible person or a criminal. I just felt sad for the birds that relied on me.”
Campaigners have reacted angrily to the “nannying agenda” of councils slapping fines on misdemeanours such as slamming doors and feeding cats.
“This is officialdom gone mad,” said Rory Broomfield of the Freedom Association, a libertarian pressure group.
“Councils should concentrate on delivering services to their residents rather than looking to crack down on the everyday activities of ordinary people.”
The data from 190 local councils show that at least 29 people in England and Wales in the past four years were told they risked a criminal prosecution for feeding birds – many in their own gardens.
And almost 300 more received letters warning of fines and court action for putting their wheelie bins in the wrong spot for collecting or putting rubbish in the wrong container.
Simon Blackburn, of the Local Government Association, defended the use of CPNs.
“Councils will only ever use these tools to address issues that are having a clear detrimental impact and which residents have raised concerns about,” he said.
“Crime and anti-social behaviour varies from place to place and that is why councils, who know their areas best, are responding in different ways using different tools and approaches.”
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
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Mariwan Namiq Hama, 36, has been raising pigeons as a hobby since he was a small child in Erbil.
Out of many pigeons he breeds in his home, one in particular is of great interest to him. He says his 25-year-old pigeon is purebred, one that is not for sale.
“I love it a lot. Most of my pigeons have descended from this one. It is a very good and beloved pigeon to me,” he said, as he kissed the blue and white pigeon.
“To me, pigeons signify love, reconciliation, and peace,” he explained.
Hama, known as Mala Mariwan among his friends, is grateful that his neighbours are not concerned about the presence of his birds, some as expensive as $2,000. Some pigeon lovers even regularly visit his house.
Once, he had invited some of his friends over, but later realized that his pigeons had been poisoned.
“Some of my pigeons died overnight. More pigeons died in the evening,” Mala Mariwan said as he recalled the incident
He could not capture the culprit since at the time he did not have CCTV camera installed.
“This made me upset because I love them. It was a big sin,” he lamented.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
