Cher Ami ( French for " dear friend ", in the masculine ) was a registered Black Check Cock homing pigeon which had been donated by the pigeon fanciers of Britain for use by the U. S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I and had been trained by American pigeoneers.

A high collaboration with pigeon fanciers from Belgium, Holland, Germany and so forth is also observed.

The trial, which cost £ 25, 000, was supported by the Scottish Homing Union, representing the country's 3, 500 pigeon fanciers.

They are bred by pigeon fanciers for various traits relating to size, shape, color, and behavior.

However the 20th century saw a revival of doocot construction by pigeon fanciers, and dramatic towers clad in black or green painted corrugated iron can still be found on wasteland near housing estates in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Modern pigeon racing originated in Belgium in the mid 19th century.

However the Reuters News Agency, the world's largest information provider, began as a pigeon service carrying closing stock prices between Belgium and Germany, basically between the Western and Eastern terminus of the telegraph in Europe.

The Janssen Brothers ( Louis, Charel, Arjaan and Sjef ) are a famous and very successful pigeon racing family from Arendonk, Belgium.

In addition to stables for Royal horses in 1886 a racing pigeon loft was constructed for birds given to the Duke of York by King Leopold of Belgium and one or more lofts for Royal pigeons have been maintained ever since.

Dovecotes in Belgium are mostly associated with pigeon racing.

As an illustration of artificial selection, he describes fancy pigeon breeding, noting that " he diversity of the breeds is something astonishing ", yet all were descended from one species of rock pigeon.

Special postage stamps were issued from October 1898 until 1908, when a new communications cable was laid to the mainland, which made the pigeon post redundant.

Many contribute actively to preserving and protecting wildlife habitats internationally, knowing from experience that uncontrolled hunting can result in population crashes, such as in the US in the 19th century when common wild species that had been staple foods — most famously the passenger pigeon — were unexpectedly hunted to extinction.

Fragmentary remains of a probably " ptilinopine " Early Miocene pigeon were found in the Bannockburn Formation of New Zealand and described as Rupephaps ; " Columba " prattae from roughly contemporary deposits of Florida is nowadays tentatively separated in Arenicolumba, but its distinctness from Patagioenas needs to be more firmly established.

Game meats such as venison which were traditionally the domain of higher classes are occasionally also eaten by those wishing to experiment with a wider choice of foods, due to their promotion by celebrity chefs, although they are not usually eaten frequently in the average household, however rabbit and pigeon, whether poached or domestically reared, were once staple sources of protein for the working classes.

Monstrous pies were a feature of 18th-century Essex rural festivals ; the Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie festival is still in existence, and other inns around the edge of Epping Forest were famed for pies ( rabbit pie at The Reindeer, Loughton, now Warren House, and pigeon pie at The King's Head, Chigwell ).

Petoskey was also the location where 50, 000 passenger pigeon birds were killed each day in the late 19th century, prior to their complete extinction in the early 20th century.

* In 1983, English-American rock group The Pretenders, released their song " Back on the Chain Gang ", featuring the lyrics " The phone, TV and the News of the World got into the house like a pigeon from hell ..." Written by the group's singer, Chrissie Hynde, the song was about the band's experience of losing their guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, to a drug overdose, and these lines were in reference to the surviving members ' inability to escape the story at the time.

Among the cherry trees in the garden at the homestead were " bronzewing pigeon and satin birds, love birds and honeyeating parakeets.

The birds were first trained on a limited set of paintings: when the shown painting was a Picasso, the pigeon was able to obtain food by repeated pecking ; when it was a Monet, pecking had no effect.

In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Paris was under siege and messages were sent by carrier pigeon.

Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian Sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1 %.

In this context desks which required users to fold and title each letter or document and place it in a pigeon hole, or small nook, were simply not efficient.

Beech nuts were one of the primary foods of the now-extinct passenger pigeon, and the clearing of beech and oak forests are pointed to as one of the major factors that may have contributed to the bird's extinction.

The pigeons were dropped in wicker baskets with little parachutes over France and Germany and they were used to fly back to her mother's pigeon loft carrying intelligence.

Pistone said that Napolitano loved going to his pigeon coop to think: " Sometimes when we were up on the roof with the pigeons, Sonny would lean on the railing and look out over the rooftops of the neighborhood where he had lived all his life.

* Pigeons :-During Chandargupt Maurya's rule the various provincial capitals in his empire were linked by pigeon post.

Many traditional food sources, such as the kererū ( wood pigeon ) and other birds, as well as some types of fish and plants, became scarce as forests were destroyed and species were over-hunted.

The dovecote and pigeon coops were near the lake.

However, in common use these distinctions are not clearly made, and many of the varieties so classified and given below are also used as vegetables, with their beans in pods while young ; cooked in whole cuisines ; and sold for the purpose ; for example, black eyed beans, lima beans and Toor or pigeon peas are thus eaten as fresh green beans, or cooked as part of a meal.

" This derivation had been taken so much for granted that biological nomenclaturists named the common pigeon Columba livia with a supposed meaning of " blue pigeon.

On 2 December 1943, a pigeon from Broughty Ferry called Winkie was awarded the Dickin Medal for " delivering a message under exceptional difficulties and so contributing to the rescue of an Air Crew while serving with the RAF in February 1942 ".

In 1924, the Universal Postal Union celebrated its 50th anniversary and its Congress was held in Stockholm, so Sweden issued two series marking it, the first with a view of the Stockholm skyline, and the second with two designs ; a postrider watching an airplane, and a carrier pigeon over a globe.

The cauldron was rarely emptied out except in preparation for the meatless weeks of Lent, so that while a hare, hen or pigeon would give it a fine, meaty flavour, the taste of salted pork or cabbage would linger for days, even weeks.

His father says that everyone in the world is in a pigeon hole, even starving artists ; there are good pigeon holes and bad pigeon holes so it is better be in a good one.

He so wants to be with her, he takes on Paul Bowman ( Isobel's chutney business partner ) at a clay pigeon shooting contest.

The trumpeting breeds of pigeon are so named because of their unique vocalizations which sound vaguely like low laughter.

The pigeon was placed inside so that they could see out through a window.

This pigeon will feed in agricultural areas, where cabbage is the most commonly taken crop plant.

Perhaps the main limiting factor on the rate at which the pigeon increases its numbers is eggs and young being taken by introduced Black Rats.

Perhaps the main limiting factor on the rate at which the pigeon increases its numbers is eggs and young being taken by introduced Black Rats.

This pigeon will feed in agricultural areas, where cabbage is the most commonly taken crop plant.

Perhaps the main limiting factor on the rate at which the pigeon increases its numbers is eggs and young being taken by introduced Black Rats.

A pigeon post was employed during the course of the siege, with pigeons being regularly taken out of Paris by balloon.

Clay pigeon shooting has taken place at Bisley since the early 1920s.