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Pigeons were once briefly used to carry stock market price reports between Paris and Berlin in the early beginnings of the Reuters news agency. Now, with a world connected by fiber optics and satellite beams, aficionados still train, keep and race pigeons for sport. The membership of Britain's Royal Pigeon Racing Associated is declining, but tens of thousands remain. This year, the 40th annual British Homing World Show of the Year, held in Blackpool, had 2,500 pigeon entries from around the…

Ben Jurney writes a humorous depiction of someone panicking over a pigeon outside his window.

Photographer Abian Sacks has taken more than 500 pictures of his feathered friends in cities including New York and would like to snap them in London's Trafalgar Square, too. He goes to every extreme to catch the city birds in their most natural environments, climbing up fire escapes or scaling the tops of the highest buildings in a bid to get the best shots.

The following is an amazing photo from the internet. (Unfortunately, the photographer is unknown.) Following the photo is a poem I wrote yesterday. As I state in the poem, I found my close encounter with a mourning dove in our garden to be a positive experience, a soothing balm, comforting and reassuring on the eve of my second cancer surgery. A rose blushed ghost with a luminous glow, Suddenly, as if by magic, there she is: Gently cooing at my feet. Serene, confident, trusting in something…

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