Pegeon lost

[ginbart]

Where my DH and I work there is a homing pigeon that is always there. I feed it bird feed and have been trying to get it to come closer to me. It has a band on each leg. If I should get to hold this bird and read the band how can I tell who it belongs to? This bird has been coming around for 6 months. I know it's lost and I don't know how to help it. Thanks for your help.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

You can probably find your answer here:

http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/

 

[ginbart]

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Thank you for that.

 

[deerman]

Place a live trap to catch it, or the trap I use as a boy. Place a box with one end held up with a stick with a string tied to the stick, place the food under the box. when he goes under the box to eat, just pull the string.

Good luck.
link to lost pigeons

http://www.pigeon.org/lostbirdinfo.htm

 

[Rootball]

Sounds like it might not be a Homing Pigeon.

 

[ginbart]

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Why would you say that? I'm not mad just asking. I guess I should say what makes you thinK it's not? Is there something I don't know?

 

[seedcorn]

If it was a homing pigeon, it would be home.

If it is a bad homing pigeon, guaranteed it will not want to go home.

Good chance it is NOT a racing pigeon but some other breed.

 

[deerman]

Sound like a racing homer, two bands one could be from a race.

Even racing homers get lost, if young it may have found a new home. Catch it check band even if a roller or etc, band will tell who raised it.


All racer lose a few homer every spring training them. They may not want it back ,because it didnt home.

 

[ginbart]

Now I see. I will try and get it. But it's been around for a couple of months. Some one had told me there was an add in the paper saying they lost one. But they had seen it a couple of weeks before they told me and I couldn't find it. I will keep trying to get it. I would at least like the owner to know it's alive.

And if he doesn't want it that's ok it can stay with us. Thanks for all the information and help.

 

[FrChuckW]

Like Deerman said earlier, even homers can get lost. Sometimes they run into bad weather during a race and take cover were they can find it. If it is a young bird, then it may not continue home because of being disorientated by the weather.

Alot has to do with how thoroughly it was trained to home to it's loft. It could also be an older bird that was sold and escaped, or it could be one who's loft has been torn down and hasn't a home.

If you contact the NPA(National Pigeon Association) they should be able to tell you who the breeder is by the band number. The second band could be a pair band, used to identify one part of a breeding pair, or it could be the band placed on the bird for a race.