A pigeon fancier releasing his homing birds one by one

Introduction

The photograph on this page of A pigeon fancier releasing his homing birds one by one by Ian Greig as part of the Geograph project.

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A pigeon fancier releasing his homing birds one by one

Image: © Ian Greig Taken: 10 Jul 2011

"If you release them all at once they don't know where they've been"

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Image Location

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Latitude
53.481674
Longitude
-2.799721