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	Carrier Pigeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wealthy Romans carried pigeons in baskets into the amphitheater for the purpose of sending home the names of guests whom they were inviting, or to make a change in the dinner.
		Carrier pigeons were employed at the siege of Jerusalem.
		Pigeon homing is a national sport in Belgium and in England.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol1/carrier-pigeon.htm (691 words)

	CARRIER PIGEON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A carrier pigeon is a pigeon (specifically a domesticated Rock Dove, Columba livia) trained to carry messages from a release point back to their home loft.
		Carrier pigeons were used as early as 1150 in Baghdad and later also by Genghis Khan.
		Carrier pigeons were still employed in the 21st century by certain remote police departments in eastern Orissa state of India to provide emergency communcation services in cases of natural disaster.
	www.fbipigeons.com /carrier_pigeon.htm (332 words)

	* Pigeon - (Animals): Definition
		Pigeons are unusual among birds in that they produce a milk which has a chemical composition similar to that produced by mammals.
		Pigeons are actually domesticated rock doves that have returned to wild or semi-wild conditions...
		Flamingo parents feed their chicks with a liquid secreted from the upper digestive tract that is similar to pigeon "milk" and has a very high nutritional value.
	en.mimi.hu /animals/pigeon.html (684 words)

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