A pigeon trained to fly home from a great distance and bred for long-distance racing.
the British military used homing pigeons extensively
Example sentencesExamples
- Domestication of the homing pigeon has provided researchers with a powerful tool to investigate avian navigation.
- A flight of homing pigeons scramble to get airborne from their loft in an old shed.
- Homing pigeons are said to take much longer to navigate to their destination prior to earthquakes.
- Rather than plucking random pigeons off the street, she got in touch with pigeon fanciers who owned homing pigeons.
- Fifty-eight homing pigeons took part in the auction, which attracted over 200 fans of homing pigeons to the event.
- Zoologists have come up with a new theory to explain how homing pigeons navigate.
- A homing pigeon can find its way back to its loft from nearly a thousand miles away.
- The response of homing pigeons to some treatments was dependent on how far they were released from the home loft.
- The 40-year-old jobless man was arrested recently for stealing 30 homing pigeons.
- He uses homing pigeons to carry messages back home.