Pigeon Homing Instinct

[Mealy Cock]

Hi all.

 

Has anyone ever had I similar experience as me, I had a phone call a week or so after I sold all my birds and loft.

 

It was a fancier who had purchased a number of birds from me including some stock bird, he told me vandals had broken into his loft

and a number of birds got away and had any come back to my home address, one such bird was in its first year of breeding for me as I had purchased

the said bird from the late Eddie Wright so it had been in an aviary at his lofts.

I told him I had no loft and the bird had never been out due to it being a stock bird, as the fancier lived some 14 miles away the

chances of getting the bird back was 0.

 

A day later I could not believe my eyes when a pigeon was sat on a small wall facing my patio doors, as I opened the door the bird flew

past me and landed on the cooker in the back of the kitchen it was the young stock cock that I had received a phone call for, I caught the

bird and contacted the fancier who owned it and told him the story luck or what.

 

What I don't understand is, the bird was not bred at my loft nor had it been out, yet it found it's why to my home address and flew into my home

that's nothing like a loft. Any body else had the similar experience.

 

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