Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

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This Pigeon Racing book is a complete guide to the sport for people who want to win pigeon racing without over-extending themselves. Fancy Pigeons Containing Full Directions for Their Breeding and Management, with Descriptions of Every Known Variety, and All Other

Blechman’s Pigeons follows him on a quest to understand why people both love and loathe this bird so passionately.Its A Good Day To Read Shirt, Books Shirt, Book Lover, Literary Bookish Reading Top, Librarian Shirt, Piggie Elephant Pigeons School Team Correction: An earlier version of this blog stated that well-fed pigeons made the optimal choice of the pea and milo seed. It should have stated that hungry pigeons made the optimal choice. Somewhat hungry pigeons were more likely to choose only the pea. Fun, funny, interesting, illuminating book. How much did I like it? Only 50% into the book, I acquired two physical copies to give out for Christmas.

I came to this book as a pretty big pigeon fan already, so I didn’t personally need further convincing that pigeons are incredible. However, the book was so informative and enthusiastic about pigeons that I am making a commitment to stanning pigeons even more actively. Mosco's interest in pigeons, bird watching, and nature were infectious. The writing was aimed at readers who might only have vague memories of their high school science classes, so some of the explanations of things like pigeon genetics were a bit simplistic for my tastes, but overall this was an enjoyable and interesting read. I very much appreciated the annotated "Further Reading" section and would like to try out several of the books Mosco mentions. Now for the pigeons. Instead of grapes or plates, the pigeons were presented with peas, which they find delicious. They consider milo seeds, also known as sorghum, less appealing but still palatable. When given the option of either a sole pea or a pea and a milo seed, however, the birds chose the pea and the milo seed. They appeared to behave more rationally than either humans or monkeys. A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated, Foreign, and Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled From the Best Authors, With Observations and Reflections, Containing All That is Necessary to Be Known of Tame, Domesticated, Foreign And.In a recent series of experiments Zentall and his colleagues have found that pigeons make some of the same common reasoning mistakes as humans do. For example, they exhibit a strong tendency to select a riskier option over a smaller, safer reward. In one avian version of a casino, pigeons had to choose between a low-probability payoff of 10 food pellets (versus zero) and a high-probability payoff of three pellets. (The expected value is two pieces of kibble in the first case and three in the second.) Although at first the birds chose the more profitable three-pellet option, over time they switched strategies and went for the suboptimal 10-pellet gamble again and again. Research on human gamblers reveals a complementary trend. Compulsive gamblers pay little attention to their losses, tending to remember when they won but not the frequency of winning. Personalized Name Shirts Elephant Piggie Shirt Pigeon Read Name Shirt Custom Shirt Teacher Shirt Teacher Gift Custom Name Mo Willems T-Shirt hi Eric,Although the books written by stan bishop were many and entertaining to say the least(old hands).a big part of imformation wrote down were basically figments of his imagination..especailly his noturious " Eyesign"reworking. Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. True it will dramatically speed up the process, but with time any group of Racers can be bred to be a top Racing family. It just takes a breeder with the patience, and the judgement, and instincts to do it.

It offers a fresh perspective on the humble pigeon and encourages readers to look deeper into these beautiful animals. Will you like the book random person reading my review? No clue. There's a kind of flippant attitude to the writing, I liked it but others might not. I guess. Possibly. The subject matter is pigeons. Why people should care about them. Why they seem to be all around us. How they are actually out there because of us (we domesticated them, traveled around with them, released them into places they hadn't existed before (like North America)); why would we domesticate them? Why do people (some) not remember this tidbit? How many won military medals (a few, seriously)? BUT I believe a good Flyer can in a few years turn an average group of birds into a winning family. JMHO A Treatise on the art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated, and Fancy Pigeons, Carefully Compiled From the Best Authors, With Observations, Containing all That is Necessary to be Known of Tame, Domesticated, and Fancy PigeonsThe author covers the history of pigeons, their uses (by humans) and the different breeds. This last part was fascinating, as was the reproduction. The author actually talks of the visible genetic markers for some broader types and how they are transmitted to future generations based on the type of the mate. The author also gives us an in-depth view of their daily lives and some typical behaviour. There is so much to learn about pigeons- their history, their training techniques, breeding strategies- that it can be difficult to know where to start.