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1957 Dallas Homing Pigeon Club trophy.
Warriors of Great Pigeon Empire
Get my good side. (Taken with instagram)
My first New Yorker friend
Adaptation… the title of the wildlife short film I am making at the moment. The films tag line is ‘looking at things we see every day differently’ and that’s really the purpose of the film to look closer at the feral pigeon and discover the array of remarkable abilities that they possess.
Some homing pigeons I was requested to draw.
XO
curiosity of the rain
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Two researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Le-Qing Wu and David Dickman, have identified cells in a pigeon’s brain that record detailed information on the Earth’s magnetic field, a kind of biological compass.The group of specialized cells are in the brain stem and record direction and intensity of the magnetic field. And they have good, but not conclusive, evidence to suggest that the information these cells are recording is coming from the bird’s inner ear. So cray!
