I just started breeding pigeon like 2 months or so, it's the breed from Belgium racing homer and feral pigeon (which is slightly slim & smaller). Pigeon is one of the good animal which have instinct know-how-to-go-back-home which some researcher/scientist claim they're using magnetic field & sun compass to find the route back to the owner loft. In UK / Europe / USA, they organize a sports called pigeon racing & attract people all over the states to participate.

They mark the pigeon leg with rubber band, inventoried, deliver the birds with truck to unfamiliar place like 1000miles away from the loft & release right after that. All the released pigeon will fly to their own loft (some may gone missing/trap/death/MIA) Because of great financial rewards, this sport attract so many people with huge investment (on diet, loft, maintenance, breed, R&D, time, etc). In the late 1800s there were races in regularly in the USA, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain.

The homing pigeon (racing pigeon breed) is a specifically bred variety of pigeon, not the same such as the feral pigeons which dwell in most cities (include Kuala Lumpur; you can see it along Lebuh Ampang, nearby Petaling street, backyard of Al-Bukhari mosque Jalan Hang Tuah, backyard of Indian Temple in Batu Caves). A racing pigeon is the product of several cross breeding from different varieties of domestic pigeons which were then subjected to training and racing.

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