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homing pigeon

NOUN
  1. pigeon trained to return home

How To Use homing pigeon In A Sentence

  • Trained homing pigeons can find their way over distances as far as 600 miles.
  • Knowing this neighbourhood as I do, I have sent out boy scouts armed with catapults and homing pigeons to locate and succour your undoubtedly acned messenger, who has, I suspect, been lured into a den serving potent drinks and fevered women who have taken his mind off his job and transferred it to his own gratification. Archive 2007-02-01
  • He uses homing pigeons to carry messages back home.
  • To send our secret reports back to Finland, we'd use homing pigeons.
  • A homing pigeon with a small bar magnet attached to the back of its head takes much longer to fly home!
  • This makes a great deal of sense if we consider the evolutionary origin of homing pigeons.
  • Homing pigeons taken from their lofts and released as far away as 1,000 km in unfamiliar territory return home.
  • There is general agreement that homing pigeons use the sun as a compass reference.
  • He uses homing pigeons to carry messages back home.
  • Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away.
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