pigeon losses

[Jaap]

Shortly I am 65 years old & been racing pigeons sense I'm 21 years of age. I have never seen pigeon losses like I've been seein the past 5 years or so. The weather can be perfect at the release with no other combines in the area and we still get poor returns week after week. Not just me, most of the combine. To a great extent there's a lot of speculation out there as to why,
I feel we'll never know till someone can sit down and talk to a bird that talks back and we know that will never happen. However I would like some feed back, some input on the matter if you will. I don't care how off the wall it sounds, I would like some input.........Tom

[Mr Twister]

I've done alote of raeding on Micro-wave and Cellur Phones and came up with the conclusion that it changs the homing abilty of the uncertainly racing pigeon to the exstint that it scrambels there brians.
What else can it be other than that and the towers we see every where.I remember reading back when russia was a communist country that they would flood the CIA and FBI head quarters with Micro-Waves and that would cause the people working inside the buildings to have head acks and cold swaets,I belive this does the same to our birds.

[mr-simon]

Are they flying near dairy farms? Granted they are often not welcome they're. It is perfectly becomming popular to have the state gys come & poisen the starlings and pigeons for the sake of cow haelth. There are also bird traps set up. I guess at the farm I work at 200 pigeons were shot two years ago. We still haven't regained the number of pigeons that were present in the past. Truly now when we see a pigeon its generally too friuendly. Not sure if they just stop to rest and over eat to the point they can't fly off or what but its strange. We don't kill them anymore unless they take up residence. Haven't seen any with bands yet but I also wasen't there when the 200 birds were killed.