Free as a bird
(Prague Post)
THE MAGPIE CLUB
(Established 25 January 1885)
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THE MAGPIE CLUB (Established 25 January 1885)
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Worldwide News relating to pigeons, racing & fancy I thought it would be interesting to gather together some of the pigeon news from around the globe on a regular basis so below are links to pigeon news Thursday 11th February Crime gang in £250,000 racing pigeon coup (Mirror, UK) Wednesday 10th February R10m Riding on Ali the pigeon (Sowetan, Zambia) Saturday 16th January
Championship Show, The Netherlands
A New
Dutch Exhibition, this show for poultry, fancy pigeons, ducks,
geese, turkeys, rabbits and cavies will be held in the Veemarkt
Halls in Utrecht, The Netherlands from 28th. – 30th. January 2010.
More information about this unique event is available on
www.championshow.nl
2009 Thursday 1st October Pigeons teach math to PSE (Meridian Star, US) Thursday 10th September Friday 14th August Were these pigeons part of the war effort? (Swindon Advertisers)Monday 10th August NPA Championship Show Dates 2009/2010 available on the NPA website Tuesday 7 July Monday 6 July High-tech pigeons reveal navigation secrets (swissinfo.ch) Thursday 25 June Pigeon 'black box' offers clues to navigation (Newscientist, UK) Wednesday 3 June Giant baby pigeon has Cotswolds experts in a flap (Wilts & Glocs Standard)Monday 18 May The Club has received a letter from the Royal National Agricultural & Pastoral Society of Tasmania seeking support for their Royal Launceston Poultry and Pigeon Show in August. We are going to try and find out how many Magpie breeders there are in Tasmania! I am sure the Society contacted other breed clubs in UK but it seems like a lot of expense to go to to attempt to drum up support on the other side of the world (literally). I contacted to say it seemed strange that they get in touch with clubs on the other side of the world, the Show Manager replied with the following, so any Tasmanian Magpie breeders do get in touch:
Thanks for your email. We do find it
does create a lot of interest having prize cards or rosettes from
other countries and we are happy to reciprocate. Your club may wish
to consider this for another year. I don't know the exact number of
Magpie breeders in this State but they have always been a popular
breed and I understand of reasonably high quality.
Good to hear from you.
Regards
Brian Bennett
Show Manager, Royal Launceston Show
Sunday 10 May Pigeon boy set on breeding champions (Stock Journal, Australia) Saturday 9 May Derby pigeon fancier soars to the top of national competitions (Derby Telegraph)Thursday 30 April
Free as a bird
(Prague Post)
Friday 3 April Owner upset at theft of pigeons (Whitby Gazette) Tuesday 31 March Thugs rip off pigeons' heads (Sunderland Echo) Tuesday 17 March Leeds Pigeon fancier's planning 'coo' (Yorkshire Evening Post) Monday 9 March Pigeon Fanciers in a flap over wind turbine plans (Teesdale Mercury) Tuesday 3 February Saturday 24 January Pigeon Girl's quest for fanciers (BBC) Friday 23 January Bid to recruit young pigeon fanciers (BBC video)Monday 19 January Millom school gets racing pigeon (NW Evening Mail)2008 Thursday 11 December Pigeon show is a coup for Pickering (Gazette & Herald) Thursday 4 December Ground-breaking talks between bird groups (Larne Times) Wednesday 26 November Obituary - Ronnie Arnison I was greatly saddened to hear of Ronnie’s passing. Ronnie was a Magpie breeder and exhibitor for a lot of years but not only a Magpie man, he had an in depth knowledge of many breeds. He was not only a pigeon man, he was a man of the country. We spent many a happy hour leaning over a pigeon pen talking about birds, farming and the general state of the countryside. All of us from the Magpie Club will miss Ronnie and send our sympathies to all the family. Nev Worley Tuesday 21 October Iran arrests two spy pigeons near nuclear facility (Arabianbusiness.com) Sunday 12 October
Pigeon
breeders now face fewer challenges
in Iraq (Los Angeles
Times)
Friday 12 September
Birds keep
man's life from tumbling out of
control (Los Angeles
Times, USA)
Monday 8 September DEFRA withdraw racing '7-day' rule (PigeonBasics.com) Sunday 7 September Probe after £50K pigeons killed (BBC) Wednesday 13 August Rare pigeon sold for Dh18,000 (United Arab Emirates Dirham) approx £2458 (Gulf News) Tuesday 29 July Queen donates pigeons to Wetherby Young Offenders Institute (Wetherby News) Tuesday 22 July Pigeon aficionados by day, hawk killers by night (National Post, USA) Friday 18 July Fancy for Flight: Pigeon keeping is a hobby for many, a business for some (ArmeniaNow.com) Tuesday 1st July Owner sells bird for Dh7,000 (United Arab Emirates Dirham) approx £956 (GulfNews.com) Tuesday 24th June Pigeon racers keep hobby alive despite fading interest, phone towers (LiveMint.com, Indian Story) Sunday 22nd June
Pigeon returns
on Fathers' Day after 10-year absence
(Sunday Sun, UK)
Friday 13th June A sport's race to survive (Yorkshire Post, UK) Wednesday 4th June
Pigeons make pupils high flyers (BBC, UK)
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