Pigeons On Smog Patrol

[peter pandy]

Yes that was the headline in Tuesday's Daily Express and I had to check the date as I thought it was an April Fool, However what is printed was........ Pigeons have been recruited to help the fight against pollution.Ten birds will be fitted with sensors to monitor the main ingredients of killer smog - nitrgen dioxide and ozone in London. The public will then be able to get an update on pollution levels by tweeting their location to @ PigeonAir. Twitter spokeswoman Helen Lawrence said: "Pigeons that tweet live pollution information..You've got something really powerful".

The pigeons will be following in the wing beats of coal mine canaries, used by miners in days gone by to detect toxic gases in tunnels.

You could not make it fckn up.

[MIK]

would they do this with the Falconiers and their birds?...nope ....pigeons get the raw deal again

[andy Burgess]

Yes that was the headline in Tuesday's Daily Express and I had to check the date as I thought it was an April Fool, However what is printed was........ Pigeons have been recruited to help the fight against pollution.Ten birds will be fitted with sensors to monitor the main ingredients of killer smog - nitrgen dioxide and ozone in London. The public will then be able to get an update on pollution levels by tweeting their location to @ PigeonAir. Twitter spokeswoman Helen Lawrence said: "Pigeons that tweet live pollution information..You've got something really powerful".

The pigeons will be following in the wing beats of coal mine canaries, used by miners in days gone by to detect toxic gases in tunnels.

You could not make it fckn up.

 

http://forum.pigeonbasics.com/topic/85701-backpack-pigeons-monitor-london-air-quality/page__p__1032308__fromsearch__1entry1032308

 

Tony C put this up the other day ?

[greenbar]

they,ll still get classed, as flying rats by some,