Posted on 03/19/2019 11:14:25 AM PDT by SMGFan
Brussels -- A star racing pigeon named Armando has fetched a record 1.25 million euros (about $1.4 million) in an online auction, Belgian media reported Sunday. The prized bird -- Belgian's best long-distance racer of all time according to those in the know -- was snapped up by a Chinese buyer for the princely sum that caused a flutter of excitement among fanciers.
Armando had been expected to break the previous record of 376,000 euros ($425,000) paid for a pigeon called Nadine -- but not by such a wide margin.
"Earlier this week it became clear that Armando would be the most expensive pigeon ever sold in an online auction," wrote the specialist website Pigeon Paradise
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That would ruin the Squab Surprise dish he had in mind.
He has a million dollar cloaca. ( Yes, never saw that word before. But I do recall stamen and pistil in biology class)
It’s funny, people are impressed by how fast a hawk or falcon can dive, which *is* cool, but a pigeon can do 90 mph in a flat line, and most of the racers well over 70 mph; for hundreds of miles.
A pigeon buying a pigeon...who’d a thunk it?
Are pigeons monogamous? There would be a limit to the stud fees if that is the case.
Latin for “sewer.” Common anatomical feature in amphibians, reptiles and birds. I taught myself a lot in high school while the teachers dealt with the slow kids.
Yes, they are monogamous but they can raise up to 5 broods a year, generally 2 eggs per clutch... and these chicks become sexually mature by 5 to 6 months of age, so it somewhat makes up for the monogamy. It does not take long to build up your breeding stock.
There must be some money in racing pigeons [and the white ones for wedding doves] since there’s a guy down the road here who built a huge super nice steel barn for his flocks before he built his own house. I wish I could do the same for my parrots.
Used to have fun raising pigeons and sending coded messages to friends. The downside was cleaning the coops and the dagumed things multiplied faster than rabbits. But those child hood memories will remain nostalgic for simpler times when we learned so much from friends and neighbors.
Time to bypass all the social media gatekeepers with flocks of racers. Every home should have a few.
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Do pigeons get put out to stud?
When I was in my prime years, I always thought that would be a great calling.
...”Update of Bar-tailed Godwit movements:
12 September 2007
The godwit we call “E7” (based on the code on her leg
flag) departed from Alaska on 30 August
and migrated over 11,500 km (7,200 miles) to her
southern home in the Firth of Thames on the North
Island of New Zealand.
E7 flew this distance in 8 days without stopping.
Satellite telemetry allowed us to document this
remarkable feat for the first time. “...
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1774
...”On March 17, E7 departed Miranda on the North
Island of New Zealand and flew non-stop to Yalu Jiang,
China, completing the 6,300-mile-long flight in about
eight days. There she settled in for a 5-week-long
layover before departing for the breeding grounds.
On the evening of May 1, she headed east out over the
Sea of Japan and the North Pacific, eventually turning
northeast towards Alaska, crossing the end of the
Alaska Peninsula en route to her eventual nesting area
on the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta in western Alaska.
This flight was also accomplished non-stop, covering
some 4,500 miles in five days. “.
I don’t think so. If you ever watch pigeons or doves, they pretty much always are chasing one another trying to get laid....er, ah, umm whatever term one would use in this case.
Fry in sesame oil with water chestnuts and bamboo shoots a little pineapple and cashews some corn syrup soy sauce and a splash of rice vinegar.
Blackadder killed and ate General Melchett's "Speckled Jim" and was court-martialed as a result.
Had a prime blue bar beauty. She could even write her own code! I sold it to the Russians( maybe).
Most expensive squab dinner in history.
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