How Do Birds Find Their Way Home? | Paranormal Pigeons | Real Wild

An investigation into the science and mystery behind how animals find their way home, observing pigeons' almost supernatural sense of direction.
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[@JJ-sg8wl]

Thanks

[@RealWild]

Thank you for the support, JJ! 🥳

[@The_Sage_of_Six_Paths]

For what, what was the answer

[@janjans1178]

I’ve just made friends with and feed my rooftop pigeons, I started to think that they were following me on some of my walks … i found this video fascinating and sketched a pigeon while watching and listening. Thank you. 🕊️

[@alexp7842]

Send me the sketch

[@charlieoscar09]

Shame they dont talk about the amount of birds that go missing.....

[@johndolabaille8764]

i love pigeons iam 64 years old from the age of 8 years old i .kept pigeons .i enjoyed the experiment with the barge in the wate ri beleive he should have tried a pigeon nesting on eggs at the beg ining of the documentary i saw a dog with an amazing bond for its master finding its master pigeons know if you love them too when i was about 20 years old i gave a friend a squeaker never was outside the coop when he released it after a week it came home a distance of 2 miles

[@DevilDog3330]

The egg cracking a bit more each time they showed an interview with that one guy was awesome

[@meenaknock9058]

Absolutely he is the Legend.

[@harikfreefly1495]

I love birds more than any thing else in this planet. They are beautiful,smart,clever

[@rosalindagarza5653]

Especially Pigeons!!

[@dinosaurcola]

What about micro organisms and bacteria

[@zfatbcvxbthsbcv]

@@dinosaurcola Like Gonorrhea?

[@raheelsarwar]

Pigeon are most intelligent bird in world and inocent I love this bird

[@emillianatalluva2704]

Pigeon are the best animals in the world. The love I have for pigeon is unconditional.

[@1993dragonite]

It's a wired thing ,pigeon keeping will never be a one time thing ,even if you get rid of all yer birds u will always get into keeping them again ....it's a beautiful thing

[@reinhardtgreyling5422]

So true,pigeons are apart of youre live got rid of my pigeons a few years ago and im getting back into the sport

[@skycastlechronicles]

Niiiice! First pigeon perspective video Ive seen, very lovely!! 👌🙏

[@MaryJane-en8eh]

I absolutely love how they all have their own personalities!! It's so adorable!! Lol

[@lunafringe10]

Pigeons are gentle , intelligent; loveable. All this shit humans do with them is just so sad

[@MikeJones-Who]

Juju Rellama Do you feel the same for the chicken, the cow and the fish that suffer from your hands?

[@graffic13]

1000's of years of domestication and you're worried these pigeons get to fly free and get fed the best food and get to do what they were born to do fly! You're an asshole for implying they are somehow abused. Poor feral pigeons are abused.... tiny cowboy hats and such.

[@graffic13]

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[@barryhumphreys2083]

I agree.

[@reinhardtgreyling5422]

Pigeons are meant to fly they can decide where they want to go they have a choice,unlike horses people don't give horses a choice you care so much about pigeons but dont care about eating Cows,Chickens,fish pigeon fanciers love their pigeons and their pigeons love them thats why the pigeons come home

[@MaryJane-en8eh]

And I think even future bird generations could find their way to an old home, of one of their parents or grandparents.. Even if they personally hadn't ever live there.. But knew it was a safe place to go.. Perhaps they can sence people(genetically inherited memories).. When in need of aid, they know where to go... Pigeons are easily my favorite animal!! Their so sweet!! Even the feisty one's!! Lol

[@ChandraSekhar-dn9ef]

Greatly Written, Narrated, Edited and Directed.. 💯/💯

[@markcamara3089]

Love it , bless you all .

[@thedeleted117]

You're forgetting to mention pigeons can see ultraviolet light, which could also be how they navigate.

[@ARRR-SAUROPHAGANAX]

One time a white with spots feral pigeon was given to me. It stayed over night in a cage separated from my other pigeons as I could not tell if it was carrying any disease or not. This story took place in Athens in the 80s. Athens from air is a cement labyrinth with many thousands of feral pigeons as well as 100s of Vouta pigeon keepers. Next morning I loaded her in my car, with some other lesser pigeons, and gave all of them to a person 10 miles away. I hate to admit they were all given to be eaten. But when I came back home ..she was there.. she had escaped, as I learned later, from that guys handling and returned faster than me.. I kept her for long time simply out of respect. I even flew her with the Voutas. She eventually was taken by the peregrine a couple of years after. But how she found a place on which she only lived on night, is a mystery

[@sarahmurphy-nf4yl]

She fell in love with a psychopath that she didn't know was going to sell her to be someone's dinner. 😢 😭 💔 Thank god you treated her petter when she came back. RIP 🐦

[@ARRR-SAUROPHAGANAX]

@@sarahmurphy-nf4yl Did not sell them. They are feral pigeons worth no money. Not my fault animals eat other animals, and not your fault. That's the way life is.

[@notoriousqueenpigeon]

Beautiful when they are tossed fr race. I love them so much, my birds are the only reason I go outside in the winter.

[@Tranitosaur]

They use every teqnique, I think. They use sight and memory first on familiar places as it's easier I think. They use magnetic if far away and on unfamiliar places. When they are like a bit far but not that far that they remember the smell of some parts, they recognise and use that till they come to a part where they recognise visual vise, and then do the first step. Idk, my theory lol Like humans use eyes mainly to get back home, but if we were blindfolded, we'll use touch and other senses. I think magnetic and smell is like their other senses idk

[@Drobinin]

An excellent instructive video!

[@jamalel-sahati8632]

Thank you for making this wonderful video.

[@farmer998]

they need to do one were the coop is moving to see if they can fly from it and back then change locations and do it again tomorrow to see how long it takes them to position to a moving loft,

[@josephcamacho6630]

You moved the loft. But the loft did not have any mate waiting for the bird to return. Try the experiment with breeding pairs then moving the loft. See if the connection is with the mate in the Loft. The difference between connection with living creature and a non living object.

[@rosalindagarza5653]

You need a third group a non controlled group....Just observe the open roof for that group thats not caged the wild ones! That don't have a GPS.....

[@sassulusmagnus]

"When I fall asleep, all I dream about is pigeons."

[@fahmifeysel3111]

Same here

[@basantasubedi2921]

Me too sometimes.

[@tonisaputra7279]

Try to see how pigeon in indonesia is played. Go to channel "merpati lovers" you'll find the most interesting pigeon competition.

[@Shiyastheloco]

Adidap

[@jeffersonvardeleon7865]

Ibig sabihin niyan adik ka sakalapati haha pero nakak adik nga Naman😂

[@baskabaska2249]

Nice video 👍🏻 thanks guys❤

[@GobinathNatureFilms]

Q: What soap do birds use? A: Dove.

[@DATDS2]

I use dawn

[@DATDS2]

But the one that says it’s safe for baby ducks

[@DATDS2]

It’s really gentle and effective for cleaning and bathing my pigeons

[@elyadg67]

Great episode about pigeons!

[@af_202]

My country Pigeons are very beautiful and they have a good body shape and flying very fast i love

Wow! I love it!!! I use to raise pigeons when I was in primary school. I would love to do it again!

[@reinhardtgreyling5422]

Used to race pigeons when i was Younger and im getting back into the sport pigeons are apart of my live and i will always find them interesting

@@reinhardtgreyling5422 Great to hear! I miss those days!..great memories with my dad!!!

[@anthonygreene4938]

I had about 60 homing pigeons over a period of around 5 years. I didn't always lock them down, because I was busy driving truck , so in the end one by one most all of them got killed by coopers hawks. One time an owl got in at night and killed 4 pigeons. Another time a coopers hawk got in and killed 2 or 3. Those two incidents happened at night when the bars were down, so the predators went in , but then couldn't get back out. I released each of these predators. The coopers hawk would catch them from time to time, and take them 75 yards up in the woods, and dis-mantle them on a high stump usually. I never once actually saw a pigeon get caught , but I did see them get chased. The hawks don't catch them every time, but may have around a 10 to 25 percent success ratio, I believe.

@@anthonygreene4938 very unfortunate 😕

[@rajashahid582]

Beautiful and informative discussion 🌷

[@darkocalis3502]

beautiful beautiful bird....i have pigeon and they are magnificient

[@kevindenning7361]

"Only armed with a floating garden shed" Best Quote Ever.

[@johncarlomanalang5272]

This video is more interesting than the other made Good Job for all😁😁😁

[@emily-clark]

My goodness ! Pigeons are actually fascinating creatures ! They truly are amazing !! My uncle has pigeons, and every year, he'll go for a ride with his 33 pigeons, let them go from one location to another, and it's always a race on who gets home first 😅. He lives in Glasgow and the further he did in distance with his pigeons was Aberdeen, back to Glasgow, which is over 150 miles. He was really stressed out, of course, but they all came home, safe and sound, thank God. He always loses the race, obviously. You can't beat pigeons 😅😅... By the way, if I may, my uncle tells me that when he releases the pigeons, no matter the location, they'll circle around a few of times and then, zoooom, they'll fly home on a more or less straight line and, again, more or less. Truly astounding and bewildering. I'd love to know how they map their way home, so to speak... Sometimes, I wonder if they have this "echolocation" ability, even if I've read that they apparently aren't able to echolocate but still, makes you wonder, doesn't it ? Have a good evening 🙏 everyone 😊 ☮️

[@Abuwesamful]

I raised pigeons since I was a child, for more than 15 years. and I think they use the visual landmarks whenever they are available, and as a proof, we have some huge trees in front of my home, and one day we cut them, and the pigeons took longer time to realise that, they were skimming above the neighbourhood and increase their attitude and increase the radius of the circle with each round, until they learn it and then and surprisingly they made it home. I found out that, pigeons have very good learning ability, and they fly early in the morning to far places more than I could imagine. In fact, pigeons builds a very nice visual map in their heads, according to the attitude and the shape of the city from the sky and they treat it as a puzzle that they can solve even with partial information. My idea might be crazy, but I think the good pigeons could even measure the air pressure as they search for their homes, and they build an estimation on which direction might lead to the right place.

[@thomasranjit7781]

God made them.. give Glory to Christ

[@Tranitosaur]

@@thomasranjit7781 Which God? There's plenty of Gods according to different religions that do not agree with eachother. What about the old Gods that people belived in before, but not anymore?

[@Benimaru500]

Agree, also more connected to magnetism

[@tjp_real]

PIGEONS DESPERATELY NEED HELP !! 90% of pigeons in cities die in their first year of their lifes. The others don't live longer than 2-3 years. In nature, they can live up to 12-15 years ! They have nothing to eat, they are forced to eat trash and they freeze to death. Pigeons can NOT live naturally in cities. They are only here because of breeders !

[@grahamstaunton8154]

VERY GOOD IDEA M8👍

[@lofttorogi]

nice video.! happy flying everyone 👊

[@NE_Pigeons]

Amazing video!

[@abimaelpatino7892]

Hi .,To me. They used ., landscapes. Smells .,magnetism and atmosphere. They have a super power gift..love pigeons. Since I was 10 now 50 and still love them.

[@meenaknock9058]

Amazing experimental dacumentary. I just love it about knew pigeon's Theory.

[@akhil4u435]

God bless you brothers

[@colorfulbirdsanimals9936]

Beautiful video and beautiful pigeons thanks for this video

[@MuslimforAllah.]

All the scientists are wrong about how the pigeons make there way back home' the only do guess work' the scientists have been studying the pigeons for years and they all have different theory about how they get back home. Many different studies have been done over the years they blocked there ears, they blocked there noses, they have done many experiments on pigeons but cannot still determine for sure how they come back home. God says in QURAN that he has given the birds build in navigation ' this is why the pigeons know were there home is. The pigeons can even cross countries and go to the other side of the world. The only problem is when you take them out of the country or the other side of the world is ' simply the pigeon gets exhausted and dies of dehydration, not because they get lost 'the pigeons know were there home is but very long distant just gets them dehydrated. If the birds do not get dehydrated they will come back home ' not a problem for them.

[@baskabaska2249]

Amazing ❤

[@neelish48]

What I feel is there might be combination of these hypothesis that can explain this process. Recognizing and flying back within short distances may be explained by one theory and that of long distance may be explained by the others or theses hypothesis may be used simultaneously with one superior in decision making than the other as per the different situation I.e. the distances they fly back.

[@farhananwar6430]

i dont knw if any person of science knws it or not that people here in my area can train the pigeons in such a way that they come back to their mobile houses. they keep changing there location where ever they want but pigeons always find their home which is nt present over a single place

[@farmer998]

that was my question if you move the loft and release them will they find the loft they flew from if its still there ,move it tomorrow and do it again

[@Mohamed-ho8ki]

How they do it ?

[@bgtownchunkieloccloft4779]

@@Mohamed-ho8ki it's pretty easy ur loft first must be able to move around

[@360conscience]

@@Mohamed-ho8ki how do you walk,breathe or find yourself back home? THINK ABOUT IT....

[@baskabaska2249]

Thank you❤❤❤

[@khurramwahab9345]

In this case if birds could leave 2 or 3 days with their aviary at new location they could be reach at new sight. Pigeons do not follow the new path to search their cage however they search the cage near to their previous location but not far aside. Pigeons find their ways with the help of different sensors. They memorize the sarroundings, use magnatic rays, sun location, wind flow, (try different seasons winter and summer. Birds returning home timings will be different). They also use their nose to find their destiny (try to put a unique scent in the loft, bird will follow the smeel during fly). But I think the most important tool is the visual memory. They can zoom their puple by distance. I would request To research their beak sensor also. Ever noticed pigeon do not eat other then original grains try to put plastic or concrete shape grains (I mean immitation grains) they will pick, hold then drop them but don't swallow It's shows they also have sensor in their beak.

[@hitlercat7341]

Pigeons eat rocks and sand

[@CarolKishen]

@@hitlercat7341 No

[@hitlercat7341]

@@CarolKishen yes , they sure do .

[@neidr65]

Brilliant video,very interesting,being a lifetime with these wonderful birds,26 year's of racing pigeons best hobby in the world! But I'm so glad one of nature's biggest secret of homing remains a SECRET😊 Fasinating creature the racing/homing pigeon...

[@noguera8888]

This must remain a secret so no one ccan abuse this wondeeful bird.

[@jonasloft]

I love pigeons. Nice video😊👍🏼

[@solimanriad]

Good

[@zeenathkhasim4242]

Useful video because I love birds

[@racingpigeonchannel9119]

Thank you for sharing

[@hipdogdsv]

I loved having pigeons!!

[@parmindergill2208]

Letting all the senses together using a certain sense where it is most useful. They are amazing 👏

[@lauraschmidt1362]

What color are the birds on the title page of this video? They’re purple and blue and green speckled. Beautiful

[@tonydacosta2487]

So interesting pigeon flying high wonderful back to home

[@valkyrie1066]

My young pet pigeon goes on outings with us. (Hiking, berry picking, flea markets) It is not uncommon for her to fly off when we arrive, but she inevitably circles back and lands near us, and our dogs. She must know where our home is, when in the car she is on the console, or my shoulder, watching everything with interest. But if we're out in the car she flies to me. That leads me to think it has to do with scent. We sleep on my sheepskins on the bed, bird and dog as well. She coos and does the vertical wing flips of delight when she burrows her breast down into sheepskins. She knows our scent very well.

[@mr.eleganzzainc.329]

Very Interesting….clearly shows the intricacies and mystery of their homing instinct

[@heximancer28]

they were like, "why are you taking our home out to a stormy sea? Let's look for a new home in the area our old home was. "

[@baskabaska2249]

Wonderful❤❤😮

[@danielvelez4001]

They are amazing that’s why I have them love them

[@WeAreVenom800]

For me its combination of everything, for shorter distance they rely on visual cues and the overall feeling of the place they live But for mid and long distance they rely on smell, air pressure, air direction, sun direction, when you left your pigeon at a different place firstly they circle around, basically figuring out a specific direction using all that mentioned above and proceed their journey in that direction and if in the journey they found something similar to their home, they again circle around that place, they run a list of checks on that place and if it doesn't match their home they proceed in the direction they figured out in the beginning, during their journey they constantly look for visual cues as well,

[@tammy9887]

Agreed 💯%🎯🕊️

[@charlieoscar09]

I think you've just about guessed everything there

[@aneeq5493]

They have a sense of the magnetic field

[@aneeq5493]

Litrally a compas in their heads

[@s197gt6]

Landmarks I believe is the key on their navigation.

[@ramoncalicdan3956]

The McArthur event pigeon racing in the Philippines 🇵🇭 is one of the toughest for the racing aficionados 😎👊

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

5:24 "Tonight Mathew I'm going to be..."

[@atifqayyum3184]

Nice video too much hardwork

[@remodesigns4570]

Amazing! were i can find these kinds of pigeons ???

[@skypixel9477]

Pigeons are my favorite birds

[@skycastlechronicles]

Same!

[@davidspahr4020]

Hate to be a wet blanket (not) but it's probably a combination of things. Was the coriolus force mentioned at all? Sight, smell, magnetism, coriolus probably all figure in. Do pigeon flyers tend to fly birds east to west in the southern hemisphere? When I was flying birds in MA we flew west to east with the prevailing winds. There is also sound, memory and a birds ability to "think" to consider. Birds precisely imprint things we don't understand such as recognizing their offspring and their mate and migrating to a specific place. How does a starling know it's mate in a flock of thousands of birds that all look alike? I'm betting it isn't smell and that one singular focused answer isn't the answer.

[@JAIMYCLAN]

the sight of a heart of loving boss that's why bird want to go home 😂❤

[@n1ckysedghjou]

I love this bird I have 10 but don’t know any one to ask questions and the net is next to useless so I’m spending my spare spare time watching you tube pigeon films

[@hitlercat7341]

What would you like to know?

[@chritophermthembu2204]

pigions are very intresting.i love pigions

[@user-qe8oe5vq5w]

My theory is that pigeons comes back using all of that 1- sky starts son rising son sets to recognise east wast south and north then. No 2 - magnetic field to get more directions to home. Then 3 3- smell for May half of the distance will use the smell 4- the eye sign and that will start working from the distance that birds have been trained from.

[@Pakistanpegionclub]

Nice video

[@PetsValley]

Beautiful

[@notoriousqueenpigeon]

I dream about them all night and firat thing I do upon waking is get to my loft. That is so passionate and beautiful.

[@pelinkizilkus3884]

notoriousqueenpigeon I feel the same. Pigeons are amazing.

[@alfredojimenez1962]

qpNotorious comparto tu opinión amigo amo las palomas 🕊 son increibles solo alos que nos gustan lo entendemos 😎

[@sr-hd3bz]

11:46 yo am i tripping or did that egg just crack

[@adarsh6448]

lol

[@muhammadumerawan112]

s r nice one

[@joedm]

Yea that's what I thought too lol

[@baskabaska2249]

Super❤

[@redvlogchannel9957]

i love birds to much

[@happyfish7260]

Amazing bird

[@baskabaska2249]

Amazing animal❤

[@BuchonGaditanoUSA]

Good afternoon, greeting friend Beautiful pigeons, beautiful animals. , Purebred. 👍🕊🤝

[@ramthian]

I love them too x

[@personalaccount342]

Could the pigeons be homed at sea where land mass and olfactory arent used then brought to land to be released?

[@FilK79]

17:11 this could be prooved by taking one pieon from Germany to Argentina,,, and see if he gets confused since on the Southern hemiisphere the directions should be the opposiite of what he is used to.

[@DIChannelHOBBIES]

Very nice....🤝🤝👍

[@BetterBlue]

they proved that pigeons were smarter than them, and not only because they don't argue with one another clinging to ego theories.It's nor smart to play games of who is smarter than who. It's lunacy.

[@baskabaska2249]

Danke❤❤❤

[@Teamchambalerobrothersloft]

wow amazing

[@BuchonGaditanoUSA]

Buenas tardes, saludo amigo Lindas palomas ,hermosos animales. , Pura Raza. 👍🕊🤝

[@BudiCorner]

amazing..i like ❤️👍

[@kabootarshokpardesiyanda4049]

V great full

[@idiameenabid9475]

Love This Music (Mj).

[@skynews4432]

So beautiful

[@kingfisherphil]

stick with them, they develop at different rates and you have a lot to do, some will fail and others amaze....I am looking forward to seeing the squeekers join in.... that will be very interesting.Good feeding the new birds alone as they struggle a bit with the adults but they will all progress.

[@ikhlas0145]

Good video people Learn lot of information about pigeons 🥀

[@sshawnee1766]

What was the deal with that big egg sitting on that desk while that guy was being interviewed and then the egg cracks?

[@stud4smut]

FlyING up TO 700 MILES at 60 mph,,,,just TO get HOME To Their Safe Bed And To Their LOVING COO- BABY WIFE......That's Why I Love Raising Pigeons, No Matter The Breed, Be A Wild Rock Street Pigeon/Dove Or Domestic Bred:: Roller, Fantail, Spiraling Kamikazi Donek, Danzig HighFlyer, Or Just An Average 6th Placer - Racing Homer ~~~~ I LOVE PIGEONS~!!!! All Birds, Caged To Poultry To Wild Songbirds & Birds Of Prey, Biut PIGEONS WILL ALWAYS ROCK MY HEART BEST OF ALL FOR ME!!!! (((( Am Looking Right Now For 3 Pairs Of Whatever Kind I Can Get........ Right Now Too......BTW ))) ~--> A Pair Of Grizzlies --OR-- A Pair Of Self-White's ----> One Pair In Dark Red,'s ~~ & Lastly, ----> One Pair Of Solid Blacks ~ !! - - - FYI~!!!

[@yousafpigeonofficial]

Great 👍

[@brendaorr6064]

In the city I live, I don't memorize the street names because I already know it...but when I go out of town, instinctually I start memorizing every name of road, landmark, and store around where I stay. Does anyone else do this?

[@jowen85]

when I have been away from home (NW UK) for a while and drive back up the M6, it's the smell of the humidity that I always notice... a sort of earthy, musty, moist, cool feeling smell. Can't say I particularly like it. The trees are always getting greener too, all the way up the road (summer). Pigeons 100% know the time and also the weather. May have been that they didn't set off because they knew there was a storm. They always know about storms, hours before. Maybe these people don't know as much as they think about pigeons, but then if it were some supernatural force, it would have been there after the storm and they would have set off... so, for me.. I can totally discount that theory as airy fairy

[@dbriel1965]

Saludos desde CD México