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Monday, February 14, 2011

Racing Pigeon

The racing pigeon is one of a large group of pigeons.



Pigeons can fly very fast.  Up to 60 miles per hour.  They are very good at finding their way home.  That's why people keep them as racing pigeons. There are a number of pigeon shows on in different Countries i.e. black pool.  This is where pigeon fanciers go to buy and sell pigeons and pigeon products .  Also it is a way for pigeon fanciers to get to know each other.  When pigeons go racing they go in a big truck with lots of other pigeons from all over Dublin.  They travel for hours until they reach there destination such as the inland races. In Ireland some of these places are Mallow, Pilmore Beach, Thurles, Skibbereen and Barleycove.  There are Channel Races in Talbenny, Sennen Cove, and St. Malo in  France which is the longest race.


By Amy, Temera and Hannah A
Pigeons eat pigeon food, beans, Pease, Hormoform, and maize.  Pigeons get feed twice a day .  They also drink water.    The vitamins the pigeons get is called Gem Ultra-vits.  This is full of vitamins and nutrients for the pigeons.  They also get health grit and minerals  and Red Band .

The racing pigeon is a large bird.   It has a big, round breast, short legs with reddish-pink claws, strong wings and a medium length tail.  They have small, black, red or brown eyes, and curved, pointy beaks.
They can be lots of colours, such as blue , red , white , black , mealy, grizzles, pied, check pied, blue pied , red pied, black pied, mealy pied, black grizzle , red grizzle , blue grizzle, check grizzle.
Baby pigeons have yellow fluffy feathers when they are very young, and then they grow grey feathers as they get older.
Pigeons can be seen all around town. They live in lofts but commoners don’t live in lofts.   Most racing pigeons have a little pigeon ring around there foot with numbers on it for when there gone racing and they come back with the ring on there foot and the owner clocks it in to the clock . Commoners means a pigeon that has no owner and he has no ring on his foot. 


Pigeons are a unique and intelligent birds.  They  are very  smart little birds.  Some pigeons fight over the smallest bit of food.  They will  fight for their nest box and their perch and fight for their young if any other pigeon goes near them.
When they fight they stand up to each other.  They will smack each other with their wings and they will also peck at each other.

13 comments:

  1. we worked very hard on that report it only took us a week to do it.It was very fun because we have pigeons of our own.it was a very fun report and iam looking forward to doing the bird feeders and seeing what birds come to it
    thank you miss mchale for the wonderful prject

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  2. well done Amy , Temera and Hannah brillant report about the racing pigeon

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  3. Nice job girls.I love your photo of the Racing Pieon it is very pretty.Well done girls :).

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  4. I LOVE RACING PIGEONS. THEY ARE VERY INTERESTING. GREAT DESIGN AND COLOUR. VERY SMART AND UNIQE

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  5. Thanks Sophie and MoreBlessing and yes Temera they are.

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  6. this is a great report on the racing pigeon i hope you have fun on it.This is a very interesting repot because you filled out really lots of information (well done)

    from
    lauren

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  7. hi
    I was out my backgarden birdwatcing and i saw lots of racing pigeon flying around.I put bread in my garden and one of the paceing pigeons flew down and grabbed it and flew back up and flew over to the other racing pigeons

    from laurenxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  8. very good report by the way

    its very interesting
    from laurenxxxx

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  9. I THINK YOU DID A GREAT JOB.

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    TARRYN XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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  10. well done, this is a great work.

    from,NB

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  11. This is a very good report girls. There are a lot of iteresting facts too.


    From Naomi

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