Electrical Pylons

[anto b]

Looks like ireland will be getting these massive pylons across the country , not only are they an eye sore , will they affect a pigeons homing ability ?

 

They give off a magnetic field such is the power going through them is whats being said by the anti - campaign .

 

Any thoughts?

[yeboah]

Looks like ireland will be getting these massive pylons across the country , not only are they an eye sore , will they affect a pigeons homing ability ?

 

They give off a magnetic field such is the power going through them is whats being said by the anti - campaign .

 

Any thoughts?

What I can tell you 100% Anthony is that they are the perfect vantage point for the peregrine Falcon ,The pylons run from east to west 3 miles south of where I live and the falcons have used them to great advantage when attacking my birds especially the yb's when they are training their own a nightmare Mate

Atb Mick

[philg50]

These type of things are world wide pylons,phone masts ,mobiles etc etc etc ,if they stop the homing ability of our doos then how are swallows, geese, terns,and more birds able to migrate back and forth year upon year flying thousands of miles in some cases to the same locations i think the problems with homing is more down to vaccinations etc .

[Kyleakin Lofts]

They do emit a magnetic flux and some years back they were accused of causing cancer since the incidences of cancer were greater in areas close to pylons. Whether that was ever proven, I do not know.

 

Nobody knows with regards to loss of homing ability, but my belief is that the race for speed has diminished this. Scientific feeding so they have just enough to make it home, but at greater speeds leaves them succeptable for failure to rise again when forced down for any reason, weather or predators. The old plodders came through 'hell and high water', but we have lost a lot of our old blood / strains and with them some of the homing ability.

 

I have no proof of this, but it is my belief or opinion whichever you wish to call it.

[gulkie]

If all these things spoken about interfere with the homing ability why does it only happen to a percentage

Of the pigeons ,my believe is that there is more rubbish being bred now than a decade ago OMO.

[moscow master]

They do emit a magnetic flux and some years back they were accused of causing cancer since the incidences of cancer were greater in areas close to pylons. Whether that was ever proven, I do not know.

 

Nobody knows with regards to loss of homing ability, but my belief is that the race for speed has diminished this. Scientific feeding so they have just enough to make it home, but at greater speeds leaves them succeptable for failure to rise again when forced down for any reason, weather or predators. The old plodders came through 'hell and high water', but we have lost a lot of our old blood / strains and with them some of the homing ability.

 

I have no proof of this, but it is my belief or opinion whichever you wish to call it.

andy the only thing the pylons will do if give percy a look out point and the only way they effect the birds is if the birds at the back of a batch dont see them and have time to avoid them they clatter into them i used to walk the pylons reguarly and found as many doos lying dead more so in the young bird racing as for birds losing their homing instincts its highly unlikly again its the percy scattering them to the four winds am sure if you had the good old doos of yesteryear you wouldnt win much as todays birds are far better imo just like everything else football for instance youve messi ronaldo total athletes aswell as usain bolt compare him to allen wells etc times change andy look at cars were driving compard to 20 years ago a know which id rather drive but hey some folks are stuck in the past or hanging onto it i think weve got to move with the times !!! omo

[alex young]

A mate of mine has pylons a few hundred yards from his loft and loses a few y/birds each season to them.We watched his youngsters flying around his lofts and they appeared to be drawn towards them,when they got near the pylons they were confused and split up some tried to fly through them and dropped like stones killing about a dozen,the rest just circled for a while before returning to the loft and weren't spooked in any way.His lofts are on farm land and the pylons are easily visable to the birds,he doesn't get this problem with old birds.

[Kyleakin Lofts]

andy the only thing the pylons will do if give percy a look out point and the only way they effect the birds is if the birds at the back of a batch dont see them and have time to avoid them they clatter into them i used to walk the pylons reguarly and found as many doos lying dead more so in the young bird racing as for birds losing their homing instincts its highly unlikly again its the percy scattering them to the four winds am sure if you had the good old doos of yesteryear you wouldnt win much as todays birds are far better imo just like everything else football for instance youve messi ronaldo total athletes aswell as usain bolt compare him to allen wells etc times change andy look at cars were driving compard to 20 years ago a know which id rather drive but hey some folks are stuck in the past or hanging onto it i think weve got to move with the times !!! omo

 

The magnetic flux is emitted from the high tension cables. I do not know about the possible cancer effects or the possible effects on homing ability. Research may have been carried out with regards cancer, but my cynical outlook makes me think that cost of remedying it would overcome the effects insofaras, they wouldn't come clean. I know the peregrines love them for lookout posts and they are even erecting nest sites on them for the peregrines. I also appreciate the wire hazard.

Can't really make comparisons with the old strains, but looking at National results, the old established fanciers are always there abouts. Perhaps I presumed incorrectly about their families being old and established, but they certainly seem to home well.