1) Pigeon Tracking
Reported by Reuters News Agency [London] on February 1 that a flock of pigeons fitted with mobile phone backpacks is to be used to monitor air pollution over the skies of San Jose, California. The idea is the brainchild of researcher Beatriz da Costa, of the University of California at Irvine, and two of her students.
Each of 20 birds will be released in August 2006 and carry a GPS satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic mobile ‘ phone, capable of detecting carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.
Text messages on air quality will be beamed back in real time to a special pigeon ‘blog’, a journal accessible on the Internet. Miniature cameras slung around the pigeons’ necks will also post aerial pictures. The data they send back will be displayed on the blog in the form of an interactive map.
2) Pigeon English?
The baby pigeon complained to his mother before flying a long distance, ‘I can’t make it, I’ll get too tired.’
His mother replied, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll tie a piece of string to one of your legs and the other end to mine.’
The baby started to cry.
‘What’s wrong?’ asked the mother sympathetically.
‘I don’t want to end up being pigeon towed.’
3) Pigeon Entrepreneur
Did you hear about the man who became a millionaire with one homing pigeon?
He sold it for a dollar and it kept coming home a million times!
P.S. Please send us your pigeon story or jokes.
