How Do Birds Find Their Way Home? | Paranormal Pigeons | Real Wild

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  • An investigation into the science and mystery behind how animals find their way home, observing pigeons' almost supernatural sense of direction.
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ความคิดเห็น • 527

  • @JJ-sg8wl
    @JJ-sg8wl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thanks

    • @RealWild
      @RealWild  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for the support, JJ! 🥳

    • @The_Sage_of_Rage
      @The_Sage_of_Rage ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For what, what was the answer

  • @janjans1178
    @janjans1178 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I’ve just made friends with and feed my rooftop pigeons, I started to think that they were following me on some of my walks … i found this video fascinating and sketched a pigeon while watching and listening. Thank you. 🕊️

    • @alexp7842
      @alexp7842 ปีที่แล้ว

      Send me the sketch

  • @johndolabaille8764
    @johndolabaille8764 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    i love pigeons iam 64 years old from the age of 8 years old i .kept pigeons .i enjoyed the experiment with the barge in the wate ri beleive he should have tried a pigeon nesting on eggs at the beg
    ining of the documentary i saw a dog with an amazing bond for its master finding its master pigeons know if you love them too when i was about 20 years old i gave a friend a squeaker never was outside the coop when he released it after a week it came home a distance of 2 miles

  • @harikfreefly1495
    @harikfreefly1495 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I love birds more than any thing else in this planet.
    They are beautiful,smart,clever

  • @emillianatalluva2704
    @emillianatalluva2704 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Pigeon are the best animals in the world. The love I have for pigeon is unconditional.

  • @1993dragonite
    @1993dragonite 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    It's a wired thing ,pigeon keeping will never be a one time thing ,even if you get rid of all yer birds u will always get into keeping them again ....it's a beautiful thing

    • @reinhardtgreyling5422
      @reinhardtgreyling5422 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So true,pigeons are apart of youre live got rid of my pigeons a few years ago and im getting back into the sport

  • @emily-clark
    @emily-clark 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My goodness ! Pigeons are actually fascinating creatures ! They truly are amazing !! My uncle has pigeons, and every year, he'll go for a ride with his 33 pigeons, let them go from one location to another, and it's always a race on who gets home first 😅. He lives in Glasgow and the further he did in distance with his pigeons was Aberdeen, back to Glasgow, which is over 150 miles. He was really stressed out, of course, but they all came home, safe and sound, thank God. He always loses the race, obviously. You can't beat pigeons 😅😅... By the way, if I may, my uncle tells me that when he releases the pigeons, no matter the location, they'll circle around a few of times and then, zoooom, they'll fly home on a more or less straight line and, again, more or less. Truly astounding and bewildering. I'd love to know how they map their way home, so to speak... Sometimes, I wonder if they have this "echolocation" ability, even if I've read that they apparently aren't able to echolocate but still, makes you wonder, doesn't it ?
    Have a good evening 🙏 everyone 😊 ☮️

  • @MaryJane-en8eh
    @MaryJane-en8eh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    And I think even future bird generations could find their way to an old home, of one of their parents or grandparents.. Even if they personally hadn't ever live there.. But knew it was a safe place to go.. Perhaps they can sence people(genetically inherited memories).. When in need of aid, they know where to go... Pigeons are easily my favorite animal!! Their so sweet!! Even the feisty one's!! Lol

  • @MaryJane-en8eh
    @MaryJane-en8eh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I absolutely love how they all have their own personalities!! It's so adorable!! Lol

  • @DevilDog3330
    @DevilDog3330 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The egg cracking a bit more each time they showed an interview with that one guy was awesome

    • @meenaknock9058
      @meenaknock9058 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely he is the Legend.

  • @Abuwesamful
    @Abuwesamful 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I raised pigeons since I was a child, for more than 15 years. and I think they use the visual landmarks whenever they are available, and as a proof, we have some huge trees in front of my home, and one day we cut them, and the pigeons took longer time to realise that, they were skimming above the neighbourhood and increase their attitude and increase the radius of the circle with each round, until they learn it and then and surprisingly they made it home.
    I found out that, pigeons have very good learning ability, and they fly early in the morning to far places more than I could imagine. In fact, pigeons builds a very nice visual map in their heads, according to the attitude and the shape of the city from the sky and they treat it as a puzzle that they can solve even with partial information.
    My idea might be crazy, but I think the good pigeons could even measure the air pressure as they search for their homes, and they build an estimation on which direction might lead to the right place.

    • @thomasranjit7781
      @thomasranjit7781 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      God made them.. give Glory to Christ

    • @Tranitosaur
      @Tranitosaur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thomasranjit7781 Which God? There's plenty of Gods according to different religions that do not agree with eachother. What about the old Gods that people belived in before, but not anymore?

    • @Ozzy9050
      @Ozzy9050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree, also more connected to magnetism

    • @tjp_real
      @tjp_real 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      PIGEONS DESPERATELY NEED HELP !!
      90% of pigeons in cities die in their first year of their lifes. The others don't live longer than 2-3 years.
      In nature, they can live up to 12-15 years !
      They have nothing to eat, they are forced to eat trash and they freeze to death.
      Pigeons can NOT live naturally in cities. They are only here because of breeders !

    • @grahamstaunton8154
      @grahamstaunton8154 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      VERY GOOD IDEA M8👍

  • @valkyrie1066
    @valkyrie1066 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My young pet pigeon goes on outings with us. (Hiking, berry picking, flea markets) It is not uncommon for her to fly off when we arrive, but she inevitably circles back and lands near us, and our dogs. She must know where our home is, when in the car she is on the console, or my shoulder, watching everything with interest. But if we're out in the car she flies to me. That leads me to think it has to do with scent. We sleep on my sheepskins on the bed, bird and dog as well. She coos and does the vertical wing flips of delight when she burrows her breast down into sheepskins. She knows our scent very well.

  • @josephcamacho6630
    @josephcamacho6630 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You moved the loft. But the loft did not have any mate waiting for the bird to return. Try the experiment with breeding pairs then moving the loft. See if the connection is with the mate in the Loft. The difference between connection with living creature and a non living object.

    • @rosalindagarza5653
      @rosalindagarza5653 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You need a third group a non controlled group....Just observe the open roof for that group thats not caged the wild ones! That don't have a GPS.....

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wow! I love it!!! I use to raise pigeons when I was in primary school. I would love to do it again!

    • @reinhardtgreyling5422
      @reinhardtgreyling5422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Used to race pigeons when i was Younger and im getting back into the sport pigeons are apart of my live and i will always find them interesting

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reinhardtgreyling5422 Great to hear! I miss those days!..great memories with my dad!!!

    • @anthonygreene4938
      @anthonygreene4938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I had about 60 homing pigeons over a period of around 5 years. I didn't always lock them down, because I was busy driving truck , so in the end one by one most all of them got killed by coopers hawks. One time an owl got in at night and killed 4 pigeons. Another time a coopers hawk got in and killed 2 or 3. Those two incidents happened at night when the bars were down, so the predators went in , but then couldn't get back out. I released each of these predators. The coopers hawk would catch them from time to time, and take them 75 yards up in the woods, and dis-mantle them on a high stump usually. I never once actually saw a pigeon get caught , but I did see them get chased. The hawks don't catch them every time, but may have around a 10 to 25 percent success ratio, I believe.

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@anthonygreene4938 very unfortunate 😕

  • @sassulusmagnus
    @sassulusmagnus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    "When I fall asleep, all I dream about is pigeons."

    • @fahmifeysel3111
      @fahmifeysel3111 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same here

    • @basantasubedi2921
      @basantasubedi2921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too sometimes.

    • @tonisaputra7279
      @tonisaputra7279 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try to see how pigeon in indonesia is played. Go to channel "merpati lovers" you'll find the most interesting pigeon competition.

    • @Shiyastheloco
      @Shiyastheloco 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adidap

    • @jeffersonvardeleon7865
      @jeffersonvardeleon7865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ibig sabihin niyan adik ka sakalapati haha pero nakak adik nga Naman😂

  • @thedeleted117
    @thedeleted117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You're forgetting to mention pigeons can see ultraviolet light, which could also be how they navigate.

  • @khurramwahab9345
    @khurramwahab9345 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In this case if birds could leave 2 or 3 days with their aviary at new location they could be reach at new sight. Pigeons do not follow the new path to search their cage however they search the cage near to their previous location but not far aside. Pigeons find their ways with the help of different sensors. They memorize the sarroundings, use magnatic rays, sun location, wind flow, (try different seasons winter and summer. Birds returning home timings will be different). They also use their nose to find their destiny (try to put a unique scent in the loft, bird will follow the smeel during fly). But I think the most important tool is the visual memory. They can zoom their puple by distance. I would request To research their beak sensor also. Ever noticed pigeon do not eat other then original grains try to put plastic or concrete shape grains (I mean immitation grains) they will pick, hold then drop them but don't swallow It's shows they also have sensor in their beak.

    • @hitlercat7341
      @hitlercat7341 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pigeons eat rocks and sand

    • @CarolKishen
      @CarolKishen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hitlercat7341
      No

    • @hitlercat7341
      @hitlercat7341 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CarolKishen yes , they sure do .

    • @diego61422
      @diego61422 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mesn apparently this dude put blinders on one it still found home

  • @ChandraSekhar-dn9ef
    @ChandraSekhar-dn9ef 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Greatly Written, Narrated, Edited and Directed.. 💯/💯

  • @lunafringe10
    @lunafringe10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Pigeons are gentle , intelligent; loveable. All this shit humans do with them is just so sad

    • @MikeJones-Who
      @MikeJones-Who 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Juju Rellama Do you feel the same for the chicken, the cow and the fish that suffer from your hands?

    • @graffic13
      @graffic13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      1000's of years of domestication and you're worried these pigeons get to fly free and get fed the best food and get to do what they were born to do fly! You're an asshole for implying they are somehow abused. Poor feral pigeons are abused.... tiny cowboy hats and such.

    • @graffic13
      @graffic13 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/t4cw-Av2Pk4/w-d-xo.html

    • @barryhumphreys2083
      @barryhumphreys2083 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree.

    • @reinhardtgreyling5422
      @reinhardtgreyling5422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pigeons are meant to fly they can decide where they want to go they have a choice,unlike horses people don't give horses a choice you care so much about pigeons but dont care about eating Cows,Chickens,fish pigeon fanciers love their pigeons and their pigeons love them thats why the pigeons come home

  • @notoriousqueenpigeon
    @notoriousqueenpigeon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Beautiful when they are tossed fr race. I love them so much, my birds are the only reason I go outside in the winter.

  • @skycastlechronicles
    @skycastlechronicles ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Niiiice! First pigeon perspective video Ive seen, very lovely!! 👌🙏

  • @n1ckysedghjou
    @n1ckysedghjou 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love this bird I have 10 but don’t know any one to ask questions and the net is next to useless so I’m spending my spare spare time watching you tube pigeon films

    • @hitlercat7341
      @hitlercat7341 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What would you like to know?

  • @charlieoscar09
    @charlieoscar09 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Shame they dont talk about the amount of birds that go missing.....

    • @danueltuason6970
      @danueltuason6970 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If they go missing theyll be in the wilderness living

    • @RafieBacarat
      @RafieBacarat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@danueltuason6970and they go to other loft to so most of pigeon that missing are safe.

    • @shadlamb5874
      @shadlamb5874 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Like birds do every day in the wild?

    • @Levikrw
      @Levikrw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And predation is a big problem. But the numbers of birds that doesn’t come back is very very small

  • @Tranitosaur
    @Tranitosaur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    They use every teqnique, I think. They use sight and memory first on familiar places as it's easier I think. They use magnetic if far away and on unfamiliar places. When they are like a bit far but not that far that they remember the smell of some parts, they recognise and use that till they come to a part where they recognise visual vise, and then do the first step. Idk, my theory lol
    Like humans use eyes mainly to get back home, but if we were blindfolded, we'll use touch and other senses. I think magnetic and smell is like their other senses idk

  • @TigerSightings
    @TigerSightings 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    For me its combination of everything, for shorter distance they rely on visual cues and the overall feeling of the place they live
    But for mid and long distance they rely on smell, air pressure, air direction, sun direction,
    when you left your pigeon at a different place firstly they circle around, basically figuring out a specific direction using all that mentioned above and proceed their journey in that direction and if in the journey they found something similar to their home, they again circle around that place, they run a list of checks on that place and if it doesn't match their home
    they proceed in the direction they figured out in the beginning, during their journey they constantly look for visual cues as well,

    • @tammy9887
      @tammy9887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed 💯%🎯🕊️

    • @charlieoscar09
      @charlieoscar09 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you've just about guessed everything there

    • @aneeq5493
      @aneeq5493 ปีที่แล้ว

      They have a sense of the magnetic field

    • @aneeq5493
      @aneeq5493 ปีที่แล้ว

      Litrally a compas in their heads

  • @farhananwar6430
    @farhananwar6430 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    i dont knw if any person of science knws it or not that people here in my area can train the pigeons in such a way that they come back to their mobile houses. they keep changing there location where ever they want but pigeons always find their home which is nt present over a single place

    • @farmer998
      @farmer998 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      that was my question if you move the loft and release them will they find the loft they flew from if its still there ,move it tomorrow and do it again

    • @Mohamed-ho8ki
      @Mohamed-ho8ki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How they do it ?

    • @bgtownchunkieloccloft4779
      @bgtownchunkieloccloft4779 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Mohamed-ho8ki it's pretty easy ur loft first must be able to move around

    • @360conscience
      @360conscience 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mohamed-ho8ki how do you walk,breathe or find yourself back home? THINK ABOUT IT....

  • @farmer998
    @farmer998 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    they need to do one were the coop is moving to see if they can fly from it and back then change locations and do it again tomorrow to see how long it takes them to position to a moving loft,

  • @neidr65
    @neidr65 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Brilliant video,very interesting,being a lifetime with these wonderful birds,26 year's of racing pigeons best hobby in the world! But I'm so glad one of nature's biggest secret of homing remains a SECRET😊 Fasinating creature the racing/homing pigeon...

    • @noguera8888
      @noguera8888 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This must remain a secret so no one ccan abuse this wondeeful bird.

  • @GobinathNatureFilms
    @GobinathNatureFilms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Q: What soap do birds use?
    A: Dove.

    • @DATDS2
      @DATDS2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I use dawn

    • @DATDS2
      @DATDS2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      But the one that says it’s safe for baby ducks

    • @DATDS2
      @DATDS2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s really gentle and effective for cleaning and bathing my pigeons

  • @johncarlomanalang5272
    @johncarlomanalang5272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This video is more interesting than the other made Good Job for all😁😁😁

  • @jhdgdyhi8
    @jhdgdyhi8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    One time a white with spots feral pigeon was given to me. It stayed over night in a cage separated from my other pigeons as I could not tell if it was carrying any disease or not.
    This story took place in Athens in the 80s. Athens from air is a cement labyrinth with many thousands of feral pigeons as well as 100s of Vouta pigeon keepers.
    Next morning I loaded her in my car, with some other lesser pigeons, and gave all of them to a person 10 miles away. I hate to admit they were all given to be eaten.
    But when I came back home ..she was there.. she had escaped, as I learned later, from that guys handling and returned faster than me..
    I kept her for long time simply out of respect. I even flew her with the Voutas.
    She eventually was taken by the peregrine a couple of years after. But how she found a place on which she only lived on night, is a mystery

    • @sarahmurphy-nf4yl
      @sarahmurphy-nf4yl ปีที่แล้ว

      She fell in love with a psychopath that she didn't know was going to sell her to be someone's dinner. 😢 😭 💔 Thank god you treated her petter when she came back. RIP 🐦

    • @jhdgdyhi8
      @jhdgdyhi8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sarahmurphy-nf4yl Did not sell them. They are feral pigeons worth no money. Not my fault animals eat other animals, and not your fault. That's the way life is.

  • @lauraschmidt1362
    @lauraschmidt1362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What color are the birds on the title page of this video? They’re purple and blue and green speckled. Beautiful

  • @neelish48
    @neelish48 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What I feel is there might be combination of these hypothesis that can explain this process. Recognizing and flying back within short distances may be explained by one theory and that of long distance may be explained by the others or theses hypothesis may be used simultaneously with one superior in decision making than the other as per the different situation I.e. the distances they fly back.

  • @raheelsarwar
    @raheelsarwar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Pigeon are most intelligent bird in world and inocent I love this bird

  • @lofttorogi
    @lofttorogi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice video.! happy flying everyone 👊

  • @DuneDemon8
    @DuneDemon8 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Did you ever looked at a pigeon when it is cozy and back in the nest, when it rests. Pigeon will stick out its tongue every now and then, like its tasting air. It will do this repeatedly. I think it, maybe like a reptile, remembering the smell and the taste of its home. "Pigeons that don't smell don't home" and that is a fact. If it is a combination of things than that is one of them for sure.

    • @Saleh-dr9dd
      @Saleh-dr9dd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      DuneDemon8 I agree with you but how they recognize the smell of their home from a long distance through new smells to them ? I think we won't understand that at least for now .

    • @DuneDemon8
      @DuneDemon8 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      عبد الله we have poor sense of smell so it is hard to us to believe but smells can distribute remarkable distances in high attitudes. Pigeons circle once they are released maybe picking the faintest familiarities in the air first. Also they don't pick the shortest way home always they sometimes go slightly off courses maybe if the smells got distorted by the wind.

  • @RonPiggott
    @RonPiggott 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    35:40 Did he just corrupt the experiment results by crossing the canal and start calling the birds from their new location?

  • @colorfulbirdsanimals9936
    @colorfulbirdsanimals9936 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Beautiful video and beautiful pigeons thanks for this video

    • @MuslimforAllah.
      @MuslimforAllah. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      All the scientists are wrong about how the pigeons make there way back home' the only do guess work' the scientists have been studying the pigeons for years and they all have different theory about how they get back home. Many different studies have been done over the years they blocked there ears, they blocked there noses, they have done many experiments on pigeons but cannot still determine for sure how they come back home. God says in QURAN that he has given the birds build in navigation ' this is why the pigeons know were there home is. The pigeons can even cross countries and go to the other side of the world. The only problem is when you take them out of the country or the other side of the world is ' simply the pigeon gets exhausted and dies of dehydration, not because they get lost 'the pigeons know were there home is but very long distant just gets them dehydrated. If the birds do not get dehydrated they will come back home ' not a problem for them.

  • @darkocalis3502
    @darkocalis3502 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    beautiful beautiful bird....i have pigeon and they are magnificient

  • @LoganGardner
    @LoganGardner 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Incredible video!! Pigeons are such magnificent creatures. It’s so good that the ever changing technological world is finally capturing this. It’s what inspired me to make a pigeon racing documentaries, and it’s what has been done here. There’s such little coverage of pigeon racing and it’s finally emerging. -Logan Gardner

    • @tjp_real
      @tjp_real 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      PIGEONS DESPERATELY NEED HELP !!
      90% of pigeons in cities die in their first year of their lifes. The others don't live longer than 2-3 years.
      In nature, they can live up to 12-15 years !
      They have nothing to eat, they are forced to eat trash and they freeze to death.
      Pigeons can NOT live naturally in cities. They are only here because of breeders !

  • @jamalel-sahati8632
    @jamalel-sahati8632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for making this wonderful video.

  • @jowen85
    @jowen85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    when I have been away from home (NW UK) for a while and drive back up the M6, it's the smell of the humidity that I always notice... a sort of earthy, musty, moist, cool feeling smell. Can't say I particularly like it. The trees are always getting greener too, all the way up the road (summer). Pigeons 100% know the time and also the weather. May have been that they didn't set off because they knew there was a storm. They always know about storms, hours before. Maybe these people don't know as much as they think about pigeons, but then if it were some supernatural force, it would have been there after the storm and they would have set off... so, for me.. I can totally discount that theory as airy fairy

  • @roblanchi5159
    @roblanchi5159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Base on my 60 years experience.
    In order for a pigeon to learn where the home is.
    1- needs to start learning the location by getting exposed to location. That means we have to let them out of the coop frequently until they learn the location. some times after years of staying inside the coop, when the first time we let them out, that will be the last we see the bird.
    It has happened that I have moved the coop to the other side of the yard. birds had a hard time going to a new location. they wanted the coop to be in exact place when they were used to it. when they are realized, 1st they are realized from a short distance, then the distance is extended in the same direction. If the bird is realized 100 miles away from for the first time, most of them do not find the home, few find the home weeks sometimes months later. so it is learning the direction by flying over the landscape by seeing it.

  • @personalaccount342
    @personalaccount342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Could the pigeons be homed at sea where land mass and olfactory arent used then brought to land to be released?

  • @FilK79
    @FilK79 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    17:11 this could be prooved by taking one pieon from Germany to Argentina,,, and see if he gets confused since on the Southern hemiisphere the directions should be the opposiite of what he is used to.

  • @jonasloft
    @jonasloft 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love pigeons. Nice video😊👍🏼

  • @ramoncalicdan3956
    @ramoncalicdan3956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The McArthur event pigeon racing in the Philippines 🇵🇭 is one of the toughest for the racing aficionados 😎👊

  • @arcadianwings2662
    @arcadianwings2662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In Sheldrake's experiment: You should leave some of the pigeons IN the loft. It's not the WOOD they are attached to, the FIELDS exist between LIVING ORGANISMS! ;-)

  • @kevindenning7361
    @kevindenning7361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Only armed with a floating garden shed"
    Best Quote Ever.

  • @sr-hd3bz
    @sr-hd3bz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    11:46 yo am i tripping or did that egg just crack

  • @brendaorr6064
    @brendaorr6064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In the city I live, I don't memorize the street names because I already know it...but when I go out of town, instinctually I start memorizing every name of road, landmark, and store around where I stay. Does anyone else do this?

  • @javierrod3109
    @javierrod3109 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Birds use a magnetic field in there body with the magnetic Feel in the earth Which pushes different magnetic pulse that the earth has in the equator I’ve been Raising and flying Pigeons-for 45 years

  • @mr.eleganzzainc.329
    @mr.eleganzzainc.329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Very Interesting….clearly shows the intricacies and mystery of their homing instinct

  • @elyad67
    @elyad67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great episode about pigeons!

  • @benigma1651
    @benigma1651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never thought i'd hear the phrase "For some people, pigeon racing is a matter of life and death".

  • @notoriousqueenpigeon
    @notoriousqueenpigeon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I dream about them all night and firat thing I do upon waking is get to my loft. That is so passionate and beautiful.

    • @pelinkizilkus3884
      @pelinkizilkus3884 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      notoriousqueenpigeon I feel the same. Pigeons are amazing.

    • @alfredojimenez1962
      @alfredojimenez1962 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      qpNotorious comparto tu opinión amigo amo las palomas 🕊 son increibles solo alos que nos gustan lo entendemos 😎

  • @parmindergill2208
    @parmindergill2208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Letting all the senses together using a certain sense where it is most useful. They are amazing 👏

  • @heralioprasmo3929
    @heralioprasmo3929 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Pigeons are very intelligent creatures created by the Supreme Being! Those pigeons in this video documentary has proven it time and again. So the question still remains the same: what is their navigation secrets? It's still a mystery, that's what makes life so amazing.... :)

    • @oanas7681
      @oanas7681 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is this "supreme being" who guides them, this is the......secret ;)

    • @sr-hd3bz
      @sr-hd3bz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oanas7681 there intelligence brain?

    • @tjp_real
      @tjp_real 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      PIGEONS DESPERATELY NEED HELP !!
      90% of pigeons in cities die in their first year of their lifes. The others don't live longer than 2-3 years.
      In nature, they can live up to 12-15 years !
      They have nothing to eat, they are forced to eat trash and they freeze to death.
      Pigeons can NOT live naturally in cities. They are only here because of breeders !

  • @heximancer28
    @heximancer28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    they were like, "why are you taking our home out to a stormy sea? Let's look for a new home in the area our old home was. "

  • @abimaelpatino7892
    @abimaelpatino7892 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi .,To me. They used ., landscapes. Smells .,magnetism and atmosphere. They have a super power gift..love pigeons. Since I was 10 now 50 and still love them.

  • @matshagstrom9839
    @matshagstrom9839 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    did anyone else catch the cracking ostrich egg at 11:46 in the video. the egg is on the table behind the speaker

  • @NE_Pigeons
    @NE_Pigeons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing video!

  • @BuchonGaditanoUSA
    @BuchonGaditanoUSA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good afternoon, greeting friend Beautiful pigeons, beautiful animals. , Purebred. 👍🕊🤝

  • @الحمامالزاجلفيماليزيا
    @الحمامالزاجلفيماليزيا 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My theory is that pigeons comes back using all of that
    1- sky starts son rising son sets to recognise east wast south and north then. No 2
    - magnetic field to get more directions to home. Then 3
    3- smell for May half of the distance will use the smell
    4- the eye sign and that will start working from the distance that birds have been trained from.

  • @remodesigns4570
    @remodesigns4570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing! were i can find these kinds of pigeons ???

  • @grahammmmx
    @grahammmmx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Pigeons can be shown to possess a biological chronometer, plus a biological sextant and altimeter. A pigeons navigational ability is restricted to finding its home location from a point it may not have previously visited, or navigating between its home and other locations it is familiar with.
    Why over-complicate and misinterpret, something which is utilising such simple and well understood principles, (which we humans have been using for hundreds of years.)

    • @philoupaulo
      @philoupaulo 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely nothing paranormal !

  • @_C_E_C_
    @_C_E_C_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    @29:00 honestly.. "getting them used to the fact that their home can move.."
    Well you have therefore ruined the experiment...
    It should have been done like.. moving the pigeons some 100-200 miles away.. on an unfamiliar territory, and their home another 100 miles or so in another direction.
    Therefore if they find their home based on those factor maybe there is truth to that.

  • @sagefi1
    @sagefi1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thats so interesting to me that we don't understand how they navigate. It makes me realize how much more we as humans have to learn about the world around us.

  • @davidspahr4020
    @davidspahr4020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Pigeon Corps during WW11 was sometimes forced to move their lofts near battle zones. The still usually got back.

  • @davidspahr4020
    @davidspahr4020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hate to be a wet blanket (not) but it's probably a combination of things. Was the coriolus force mentioned at all? Sight, smell, magnetism, coriolus probably all figure in. Do pigeon flyers tend to fly birds east to west in the southern hemisphere? When I was flying birds in MA we flew west to east with the prevailing winds.
    There is also sound, memory and a birds ability to "think" to consider. Birds precisely imprint things we don't understand such as recognizing their offspring and their mate and migrating to a specific place. How does a starling know it's mate in a flock of thousands of birds that all look alike? I'm betting it isn't smell and that one singular focused answer isn't the answer.

  • @s197gt6
    @s197gt6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Landmarks I believe is the key on their navigation.

  • @Drobinin
    @Drobinin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    An excellent instructive video!

  • @panther105
    @panther105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Pigeon racing is inhumane and nothing you argue will change my view. It is cruel to take them away from their home and then toss them out to struggle to find their way home. Just cruel. Many die on the way, they are attacked by hawks, just get tired and die slow, lonely painful deaths and are even shot. It should be limited to a more realistic distance...NOT hundreds of kilometers.....!!!

    • @someguy12593
      @someguy12593 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      panther105 there is also hawks and hunters in the wild genius

    • @panther105
      @panther105 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@someguy12593 no need to be rude. I Just feel it's a pointless "hobby". Pigeons in nature face daily hazards. I see it every day on the waterfront where I work. But they aren't required to fly long distances just to get back to safety. Different situation taking them far away and releasing them. It's inhumane and should be banned just like cock and dog fighting. Enjoy your narrow minded viewpoint.

    • @someguy12593
      @someguy12593 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      panther105 no one gives a shit what you feel 😂

  • @katrinacrown5786
    @katrinacrown5786 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    People all over the world are starving to death but we now understand Pigeons . Good work

  • @hipdogdsv
    @hipdogdsv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved having pigeons!!

  • @DanceySteveYNWA
    @DanceySteveYNWA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:24 "Tonight Mathew I'm going to be..."

  • @markcamara3089
    @markcamara3089 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love it , bless you all .

  • @msharif6694
    @msharif6694 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Navigating and through memorization of the landscape saving this to their big brain. Pigeons locate their home through eyesight and that is a fact.

    • @lifesajoke6965
      @lifesajoke6965 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The guy in this very documentary took away their vision and they were still able to home, thus proving that it isn't based on sight.

  • @chethansloft2957
    @chethansloft2957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm so happy to see this my passion to birds is growing. I would love to support your team from India. Please let me know

  • @xyooj96
    @xyooj96 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    where can i get those tracking cams put on the birds?

  • @javierrod3109
    @javierrod3109 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Even a blind pigeon can find his way home.because if you take a Pigeon and set them in a new home and keep them there for a few months to actually learn the magnetic pulse in that area in that area would actually become his new home

    • @masteryang890
      @masteryang890 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not racing pigeons/ homers

    • @robertclarke2646
      @robertclarke2646 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not always, some old birds will escape and head for their old home even after years, especially the good ones.

  • @kingfisherphil
    @kingfisherphil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    stick with them, they develop at different rates and you have a lot to do, some will fail and others amaze....I am looking forward to seeing the squeekers join in.... that will be very interesting.Good feeding the new birds alone as they struggle a bit with the adults but they will all progress.

  • @KevinAPamwar
    @KevinAPamwar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Delhi, India, A lot of people keep pigeons as pets and they fly them everyday. Pigeons will always come back on the roof mount of their respective owner. Sometimes they fly so high that they get lost after dark and there owners try to find them in the local area.
    I think itis their sight that makes them homing pigeons, smell may be not

  • @zeenathkhasim4242
    @zeenathkhasim4242 ปีที่แล้ว

    Useful video because I love birds

  • @JAIMYCLAN
    @JAIMYCLAN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the sight of a heart of loving boss that's why bird want to go home 😂❤

  • @ISRAELLOFT
    @ISRAELLOFT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    pigeon racing is my passion, trying to get back into the sport after 8 years.

  • @ryno7547
    @ryno7547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    When I was growing up, our neighbor had a dog that always somehow escaped from his house and came to stay at our house. The man asked if we just wanted to keep the dog because he was moving. My dad said no so the man moved with his dog....over 200 miles away. Sure enough the dog somehow managed to find its way all the way back from his new home!

  • @af_202
    @af_202 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My country Pigeons are very beautiful and they have a good body shape and flying very fast i love

  • @joanneortiz3251
    @joanneortiz3251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can pigeons navigation not be due to smell, sight and magnetism?

  • @baskabaska2249
    @baskabaska2249 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice video 👍🏻 thanks guys❤

  • @rajashahid582
    @rajashahid582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful and informative discussion 🌷

  • @PenandBlade
    @PenandBlade 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what on earth just happened at 9:27!?!

  • @danielvelez4001
    @danielvelez4001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are amazing that’s why I have them love them

  • @herewardofliverpool1662
    @herewardofliverpool1662 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I struggle to listen to the narrator without thinking of Little Britain.

  • @DonyaLane
    @DonyaLane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I thought it was cruel to release the pigeons who were denied their natural senses, such as, the ones who were raised in the plastic-sided aviary or given drops of Novocaine before their flight. Once those birds are lost, they can't fend for themselves, because they were raised as domestic animals. I know this, because a lost and exhausted racing pigeon has landed outside my apartment, and I'm the only one giving her food and water. She can't survive in the wild.

    • @davidspahr4020
      @davidspahr4020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most homing pigeons lost eventually hook up with wild birds and do fine. In big city flocks that people feed you are likely to find banded birds. In my area out in the country there was a guy who had white homers he released at weddings etc. White homers are better at being white than finding their way back. Sometimes they got lost and you see the pure white birds with feral flocks fairly nearby.

    • @DonyaLane
      @DonyaLane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidspahr4020 , but domesticated pigeons are raised on seeds and grains, not pizza and french fries. The ferals eat that crap because it's all they can scavenge. But the domesticated pigeons don't recognize Wonder Bread as food. Won't they starve to death?

    • @davidspahr4020
      @davidspahr4020 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DonyaLane You may be making a mistake assuming what they eat. There are more seeds and other forage around than you might think. Also, you may be underestimating their synergy. There are 400-500 million wild pigeons in the world for a reason. The biggest reason may be people, many of whom feed them good food. They free range in lawns and fields. You will never see pigeons in the woods.

    • @davidspahr4020
      @davidspahr4020 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I live in the country. A lot of pigeons around. No one feeds them. There is no pizza or french fries for them to have.

    • @DonyaLane
      @DonyaLane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidspahr4020 , ok... thank you for explaining that.

  • @examplerkey
    @examplerkey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I must have missed the first crack, but I saw the second crack of the big egg at 29:11 mark hahaha.

  • @BetterBlue
    @BetterBlue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    they proved that pigeons were smarter than them, and not only because they don't argue with one another clinging to ego theories.It's nor smart to play games of who is smarter than who. It's lunacy.

  • @kellyberdan141
    @kellyberdan141 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love love love this video

  • @christophermangubat1692
    @christophermangubat1692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    36:57 is it hatching?

  • @noguera8888
    @noguera8888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If the pigeon that can't smell, had master its way home before it loses its sense of smell, and toss it in the same location and cant go home then it might be the sense of smell is thier main tool of finding home.