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Fights of fancy: MI5’s post-war plan to use remote-controlled homing pigeons
It would most likely be dismissed as a bird-brained idea nowadays.
But a former spy chief’s diaries have revealed he seriously considered using radio-controlled homing pigeons with experts after the Second World War.
Guy Liddell, then deputy director general of MI5, wrote on October 3, 1946, how he had a meeting with Captain James Caiger, who ran the Army’s pigeon loft.
He wrote: “He is our pigeon expert. He talks, thinks and dreams about them.
“He has had pigeons since he was a boy and his father had pigeons before him.
“I asked him about the homing instinct. He said the matter is quite unsolved.
“There is however, one curious fact, namely that in a sun spot year, all pigeons go haywire.
“Sun spots are, of course, minute radio-active particles – though how they affect the pigeons’ homing instinct nobody knows.
“This gives some colour to the suggestion that pigeons might be able to home on an electric beam, in other words that you might have radio-controlled pigeons.”
Previously released MI5 files have referred to plans to train pigeons to carry explosives to fly into enemy searchlights.
Mr Liddell’s diaries, just released to the National Archives in Kew, West London, also refer to a meeting with colleagues in 1949 to discuss impregnating papers with radioactive substances to set off an alarm if they were taken from a building.
He wrote that he was told, “It is quite possible to impregnate paper, metal clips or ink with a radioactive substance and to install either under the floor boards or in a door post, or under the ground outside an apparatus which will register if anybody goes out of the building with a secret paper so impregnated”.
He wrote there would also be a minor health risk if someone left the papers lying around.
“It would at the outset produce extreme lassitude and later a loss of blood counts,” he said.
“No serious harm would result if the papers were removed and the symptoms detected.”
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Pigeon Sniper may face charges
Since early this month, someone in Seattle has been shooting pigeons with blow darts, leaving the often still-living birds flying above and walking on the city’s streets with darts sticking through
them.
Seattle residents are alarmed but have run with the creepiness of the situation by calling the birds “zombie pigeons.”
Yesterday, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the pigeon sniper, according to the Seattlest blog and the Times of Seattle.
The injured pigeons have so far avoided capture by animal control officers, because, despite their disturbingly protruding dart wounds, they are still able to fly, the Seattlest reports.
However, PETA says the animals are highly susceptible to infection. If the pigeon sniper is caught, he, she or they could face animal cruelty charges.
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Town Council agrees pigeons cull
A cull of pigeons has been approved at a meeting of a West Yorkshire town council.
Bird droppings have caused £50,000 of damage to Morley Town Hall by blocking drains which have caused flooding.
People have been told not to feed the problem birds and now council officials say that they have to decide on the most effective method.
The Pigeon Control Advisory Service told the BBC that culling “causes the birds to rebreed”.
“We are not throwing away our rubbish properly and we’re feeding them over and above what they need,” said Emma Haskell, of the Pigeon Control Advisory Service.
“The key message is to stop feeding them.”
‘Ate alive’
Ms Haskell said that in the USA, contraceptives were fed to birds to control their population, but they were not used in the UK because contraceptives had not been proven to be an effective method of control.
Elsewhere in the UK, councils have used birds of prey to keep the pigeon population at bay, but Ms Haskell said this was not recommended either.
“The peregrine falcon is the pigeon’s natural predator, not the Harris hawk which is commonly used,” she said.
“Pigeons fly a lot faster than the Harris hawk and it will only ever catch young, injured or sick pigeons.
“There was outrage in Norwich when a Harris hawk flew down and ate alive a pigeon in the middle of the town centre. It was all very upsetting.”
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The in-toeing epidemic (pigeon toed gait) – estrogen?
The mystery of the in-toeing (pigeon toed) epidemic among young women continues:
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/09/pigeon-toed-gait-endemic-among.html
(I am convinced that this gait is not an affectation – I am sure it is involuntary in most instances.)
The best suggested explanation came from Paul Jaminet – vitamin D deficiency; with its bone-softening effects.
This suggests that in-toeing may be a result of softening of the feet, in some way, shape or form; if not bones them perhaps joints?…
Which then leads on to the idea that it might be due to some increase in estrogen – whether natural, in contraceptives, or as an environmental pollutant (which may explain why surprising numbers of men walk this way too).
The only ‘evidence’ I can present for this is that estrogen softens and loosens joints (i.e. softening the ligaments that join bones to bones – this is well known in pregnancy) – perhaps making the ankles or internal joints of the foot more ‘floppy’, and hyper-flexible feet may cause the observed change in gait?
Well, I’m not very convinced by this – but the phenomenon is real and new, and there must be some explanation!
NOTE added – on further reflection I think the problem is likely to be neural – neuromuscular – rather than musculoskeletal – and subtly neuromuscular – hence perhaps related to basal ganglia dysfunction.
What ever causes basal ganglion dysfunction might be environmental toxins of some sort; but could also be infective – as many new diseases eventually turn-out to be.
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Pigeon races up in the sky!
Pigeon racers from far afield have their eyes on Tasmania.
Avid pigeon racers are trying to establish a contest that rivals the great long distance, cross water, pigeon races held around the world.
Experienced fliers, George Rettas and Alex MacDonald and other enthusiasts organised the ‘Conquer the Strait’ one loft race from Perth in northern Tasmania.
The idea of the ‘Conquer the Strait’ challenge is to test some of Australia’s best racing pigeons over one of the roughest stretches of water in the world.
The race was designed for the birds to fly over more than 500 kilometres from south western Victoria, including over 300 kilometres of Bass Strait.
And while an outbreak of the paramixovirus in Victorian pigeons curtailed the inaugural race in October 2011, a shortened race format over 220 kilometres from Woolnorth to Perth was held.
Pigeon racers from far afield joined the Tasmanian long distance enthusiasts who were out to prove they have the best birds on earth.
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