The Pigeon Cote: Miscellaneous and Archives

	The Pigeon Cote Presents: the Dovecotes of England.  Here you will find a complete annotated version of Cooke's Book of Dovecotes.  Here is a site you can visit time and again with some great colored photography of many of the cotes.
	The Lancaster National Pigeon Show Slide Show:  Every year the National Pigeon Association puts on a pigeon show of national scope.  It is the largest pigeon show in the States with thousands of pigeons in hundreds of breeds competing for the top honors.
	Pigeon Color Slide Show:  Introduction to pigeon colors, the first pigeon slide show on the web.
	Everyone knows about pigeons. Or at least they think they do. If you live in a city, you've seen them flocking in parks, posing on statues, fluttering above busy streets. In the country, they strut along barn roofs, scratch in fields, and perform amazing aerial feats to elude hawks and other predators. Other pigeons loiter at suburban bird feeders.
	National Geographic: June 1913.  Pigeon Whistles.  A brand new site covering pigeon whistles.
	National Geographic: January 1926.  Man's Feathered Friends of Longest Standing.   A must read pigeon article!
	Parchuting Pigeons Now Serve With U. S. Paratroopers:  Dropped in wire baskets or strapped to soldiers' chests, carrier pigeons fly messages back to headquarters when radio or runners cannot be used
	Bird Lore was published six times per year for the National Audubon Society. It featured articles about different bird species, with photographs and beautiful color plates.  The volume featured here, for March-April 1913, has four articles about the Passenger Pigeon.  At that time, there was one known specimen left. A Vanished Race  The Passenger Pigeon, Early Historical Records  Recollections of the Passenger Pigeon in Captivity  The Last Passenger Pigeon
	Read this most interesting article about the beginning of racing  Homing Pigeons in the States: The Century Magazine: July 1886
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