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.....

[@danueltuason6970]

If they go missing theyll be in the wilderness living

[@RafieBacarat]

​@@danueltuason6970and they go to other loft to so most of pigeon that missing are safe.

[@shadlamb5874]

Like birds do every day in the wild?

[@Levikrw]

And predation is a big problem. But the numbers of birds that doesn’t come back is very very small

[@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

[@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~!!!

[@panther105]

Pigeon racing is inhumane and nothing you argue will change my view. It is cruel to take them away from their home and then toss them out to struggle to find their way home. Just cruel. Many die on the way, they are attacked by hawks, just get tired and die slow, lonely painful deaths and are even shot. It should be limited to a more realistic distance...NOT hundreds of kilometers.....!!!

[@someguy12593]

panther105 there is also hawks and hunters in the wild genius

[@panther105]

@@someguy12593 no need to be rude. I Just feel it's a pointless "hobby". Pigeons in nature face daily hazards. I see it every day on the waterfront where I work. But they aren't required to fly long distances just to get back to safety. Different situation taking them far away and releasing them. It's inhumane and should be banned just like cock and dog fighting. Enjoy your narrow minded viewpoint.

[@someguy12593]

panther105 no one gives a shit what you feel 😂

[@DonyaLane]

I thought it was cruel to release the pigeons who were denied their natural senses, such as, the ones who were raised in the plastic-sided aviary or given drops of Novocaine before their flight. Once those birds are lost, they can't fend for themselves, because they were raised as domestic animals. I know this, because a lost and exhausted racing pigeon has landed outside my apartment, and I'm the only one giving her food and water. She can't survive in the wild.

[@davidspahr4020]

Most homing pigeons lost eventually hook up with wild birds and do fine. In big city flocks that people feed you are likely to find banded birds. In my area out in the country there was a guy who had white homers he released at weddings etc. White homers are better at being white than finding their way back. Sometimes they got lost and you see the pure white birds with feral flocks fairly nearby.

[@DonyaLane]

@@davidspahr4020 , but domesticated pigeons are raised on seeds and grains, not pizza and french fries. The ferals eat that crap because it's all they can scavenge. But the domesticated pigeons don't recognize Wonder Bread as food. Won't they starve to death?

[@davidspahr4020]

@@DonyaLane You may be making a mistake assuming what they eat. There are more seeds and other forage around than you might think. Also, you may be underestimating their synergy. There are 400-500 million wild pigeons in the world for a reason. The biggest reason may be people, many of whom feed them good food. They free range in lawns and fields. You will never see pigeons in the woods.

[@davidspahr4020]

I live in the country. A lot of pigeons around. No one feeds them. There is no pizza or french fries for them to have.

[@DonyaLane]

@@davidspahr4020 , ok... thank you for explaining that.

[@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

[@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

[@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.....

[@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

[@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....

[@raheelsarwar]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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 😎

[@thedeleted117]

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

[@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😂

[@PaloXanthos]

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 🐦

[@PaloXanthos]

@@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.

[@GuardianAngel..]

Hate to break it to you scientists but pigeons are the closest thing to The Most High and He and He alone will ever know the true secret of their navigation.

[@allanonamiss4224]

Ive rescued 3 pigeons so far...one of them was a white one and I live near (the) Olive street...(if you know your scriptures.....) Charles Darwin also fancied pigeons and studied them in his theory of evolution. Pigeons are very sweet creatures and they definitely need more credit for their intelligence than humans give them.

[@GuardianAngel..]

Allanonamiss well said my friend well said.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@nishitsrivastava2231]

I know ot might sound unusual but i guess olfactory/ magnetic or a combination of them both as indeed its just a form of energy sensing may be true. I have a pigeon couple nest who are about to raise their 3rd stock and also a lot of pigeons are naturally attracted the the vicinities of the flat (3rd floor) i live in. Among the many peculiar behaviours, one ive seen in particular is that the pigeons shit on the bike I use rather than on any other bike, no matter where i place the bike in the open common garage. I mean they dont shit on any other two-wheeler and ive been ovserving this for almost an year now. Somehow i feel pigeons are energy sensitive and shitting is one of the way of marking their territory or just a plain acknowledgement of someone they are attached to (i know its wierd, buts its from plain observation). And identifying my bike amongst so many others (i live in india man insane vehicle density per open garage) even after me not using the bike for a month (after giving ot a complete wash) or more really just warps my mind. Which is why i think the olefactory theory wouldnt hold much ground since after the wash scents usually diminish. It really is i feel a sort of an energy sensitivity and perception which pigeons have which is mind boggling.

[@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.

[@af_202]

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

[@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,

[@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.

[@Pakistanpegionclub]

Nice video

[@BetterBlue]

Why they gotta think it's one thing? They have eyes, feet, wings, avigation glands, etc. Inherent abilities. They use ALL things to get home. God Spoke to them, and put a special thing in them.And they help people. even ungrateful ones Look at their colors.! The best artis in the world can't make such beautiful, pastel gradation color combinations of the rock pigeon. If you need proof God is real, look at one up close.

[@michaellawson6533]

The olfactory theory is nonsense because all weather systems have an east to or from west movement . So the birds flying north south have no indicators from smell because once in unfamiliar territory they cannot bank on receiving the scents or smells from the north or south, only from east or west , and they still make it home. Then what about birds who make the South Africa to Siberia migration for the first time unassisted by others, just instinctively alone? Or the trans Himalayan migration ?

[@johncarlomanalang5272]

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

[@darkocalis3502]

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

[@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.

[@personalaccount342]

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

[@BetterBlue]

Homing pigeons not only know their names and lear voice commands, they can read and distinguish written words on cards and peck twice if it's an english word, and once if it's a nonsense word. No joke. a video on here shows it. God knows what else they can learn when not 'trained' cruelly by dumber human animals.

[@NatureWitch]

Wait wtf did that egg just crack in the background @11:44 and again @29:09! And again @36:37 omg it's gonna break open lol Is it truly something in the egg? Guess I'll find out by the end of the video

[@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 😊 ☮️

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 😕

[@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.

[@javierrod3109]

Birds use a magnetic field in there body with the magnetic Feel in the earth Which pushes different magnetic pulse that the earth has in the equator I’ve been Raising and flying Pigeons-for 45 years

[@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?

[@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.

[@loyaltyndrespect24]

only one explanation the LORD is his name, who is bless forever.

[@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?

[@michaelmuhammad5000]

He's calling them,that's interference! The study is tainted !

[@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.

[@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 .

[@diego61422]

I mesn apparently this dude put blinders on one it still found home

[@BuchonGaditanoUSA]

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

[@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?

[@emillianatalluva2704]

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

[@1americanatlarge]

THEY SHOULD HAVE TOOK 2 PIDGEONS WITH THEM OUT TO SEA AND RELEASED THEM FROM AVERYS NEW SPOT TO SEE IF THEY WOULD GO MEET AND LEAD THE OTHER HOMEY'S (PIDGEONS) OUT TO SEA TO WHARE THE NEW SITE OF THE AVERY IS ,

[@joanneortiz3251]

Can pigeons navigation not be due to smell, sight and magnetism?

[@RonPiggott]

After watching this I wonder if pigeons navigate using airplane visual navigation principals.

[@kiranvgvg636]

I love homing pegions and i have 4 homers

[@jawadsh787]

The egg cracks at 29:09

[@skypixel9477]

Pigeons are my favorite birds

[@skycastlechronicles]

Same!

[@darrylkassle361]

What about scrambling the assumed magnetic field somehow and then seeing how they home in . As for smell do the same .

[@panther105]

Just can't face taking my kids out far away and saying "OK, I love you but good luck with weather and hawks while finding your way home.." Just dont see it as a true sport but animal abuse. You can do it. Not me.

[@grahamstaunton8154]

I THINK ITS THE Magnetic Fields AROUND THE WORLD DO ALLSO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY DID A STUDY ON DIFFRENT COLOURS GIVE OFF A SOUND LIKE STAGE LIGHTS AT A CONCERT /JUST A TOUGHT///BLESSING 2U ALL AND FAMILY AND STAFF KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK 2U ALL HAVE A GOOD DAY 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍

[@PenandBlade]

what on earth just happened at 9:27!?!

[@sshawnee1766]

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

[@jonasloft]

I love pigeons. Nice video😊👍🏼

[@solimanriad]

Good

[@roblanchi5159]

Base on my 60 years experience. In order for a pigeon to learn where the home is. 1- needs to start learning the location by getting exposed to location. That means we have to let them out of the coop frequently until they learn the location. some times after years of staying inside the coop, when the first time we let them out, that will be the last we see the bird. It has happened that I have moved the coop to the other side of the yard. birds had a hard time going to a new location. they wanted the coop to be in exact place when they were used to it. when they are realized, 1st they are realized from a short distance, then the distance is extended in the same direction. If the bird is realized 100 miles away from for the first time, most of them do not find the home, few find the home weeks sometimes months later. so it is learning the direction by flying over the landscape by seeing it.

[@الحمامالزاجلفيماليزيا]

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.

[@skycastlechronicles]

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

[@EnzoVisual]

The Italian experimentator just states "they home" or they "don't home". But somehow one has doubt in the cleanliness of their measurements, for example at which point and how many birds diverge. When they don't come home have attempts been made to find those birds that don't home. Perhaps some or most pigeons do take longer but are still somewhere around. Would it have been different depending on which birds they are, how they were kept? Besides to imagine that birds who have never been let out of the glass container don't home because they are not familiar with smells and not for other reasons is also not so convincing to me. Other possible explanations have to be ruled out. Finally, that this lady seems to deny the navigation theory which is shared by many migration birds makes her judgement ever less plausible to me, generally speaking. Apart from that, if you inject something into a bird or make her visually impaired she may "not home"and even perish due to bodily incapacitation and injury in which case you cannot claim you "controlled " for a freaking variable. I am surprised this sort of research is at all cited for ethical reasons.

[@RonPiggott]

35:40 Did he just corrupt the experiment results by crossing the canal and start calling the birds from their new location?

[@grahammmmx]

Pigeons can be shown to possess a biological chronometer, plus a biological sextant and altimeter. A pigeons navigational ability is restricted to finding its home location from a point it may not have previously visited, or navigating between its home and other locations it is familiar with. Why over-complicate and misinterpret, something which is utilising such simple and well understood principles, (which we humans have been using for hundreds of years.)

[@philoupaulo]

Absolutely nothing paranormal !

[@sobiaabdal7885]

Well I lived in Pakistan where low flying competition is organized in different areas. People adjust pigeon on different cardboard which is held on long stick. They took them any place and when the pigeon fly on that board it fly here and there and then land on that particular board with no area distinguish. So it's view that board with eye if that owner disappeared that board it continue it flight until it go crazy and fell any place when tired but no go to that place where it has been bought or rare. So smell or magnetic field can't be applied

[@anthonygreene4938]

According to the Bible there is a glass dome over and above the earth. How do they know that the birds can not see this dome, and somehow use this information to navigate? There are many species of birds that have the ability to migrate . Even a house wren can find its way back to its summer home, year after year. Hawks do this as well as others. Owls don't migrate, I don't think, but rather stay in their home territory year round. I tend to believe that there are probably several ways that these birds can find their way around. It has been discovered in recent years that a larger percentage of pigeons are thought to have been losing their way, and seem to be unable to find their home... but no plausible explanation for this has emerged, to my knowledge.

[@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?

[@Ozzy9050]

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👍

[@alexanderdelatorre275]

pigeon can back home because they memorize they area of the loft.. that's why if you are the fancier and you like to race your pigeon?you need to trainee your pigeon starting to short distance...this experiment is so stupid!

[@maineoutdoorsman677]

The plexiglass the Italians used in their science experiment distorted the site picture of the pigeons that were living in it ,they should try different materials that wouldn't distort there vision ,it like us puting on the wrong prescription glasses since birds have 20 times up to 40 times X our vision ,they can see grains in a field from 500 ft in the air ,

[@s197gt6]

Landmarks I believe is the key on their navigation.

[@si_vis_amari_ama]

Umm... why was the obvious not stated in that it is not necessarily one thing or another, but a combination of senses? I suppose that it makes for better television. Lovely pigeons, what smart birds they are yet we think they are dumb.

[@kevinclegg9417]

This video was a complete waste of time they are trying each to prove 1 theory correct each one alone has massive flaws in it maybe the pigeons have multiple ways and a combination of some or all can be used at one time considering the weather at the time of release I'll bet you will never find out how they can do it I've raced pigeons for 57 years and I don't know so chances are you never will good luck?

[@markusjordantesoro2992]

pigeon uses magnetic field like compass to know the direction not exacly thats why pigeon flying around to some area to know their home.

[@ramoncalicdan3956]

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

[@ChrisG1392]

Put novacaine up your nose and see if you can find your way home lol maybe they could find it but were just having fun flying

[@10laws2liveby]

so what happens to the birds that can't find their way home? That seems to be a cruel thing to do. At least it was for me.

[@darrylkassle361]

It's settled then if they can't smell then it's obviously smell. So why the continuation of thethe other schools of thought

[@TheSharoncat]

Pigeons are one of the most beautiful and smart elegant and peaceful 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊human should not race them

[@alfredojimenez1962]

Sharon Vegan Amram no creo que alla una mejor suscripción comparto tu sentir bendiciones 🕊

[@reinhardtgreyling5422]

Racing is why Racing Pigeons are bred Racing pigeons is something human beings created Racing and returning to their home is in their blood thats what they want to do and that is why they are here

[@chritophermthembu2204]

pigions are very intresting.i love pigions

[@matshagstrom9839]

did anyone else catch the cracking ostrich egg at 11:46 in the video. the egg is on the table behind the speaker

[@BuchonGaditanoUSA]

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

[@somewhatinformed1208]

1st time in history a moving loft , boat on water? Like the 1st story we all learned from the Bible....Noah's Ark sent a dove out looking for land,,,,,,it returned........the guy who wrote the bible must have kept pigeons'.

[@naqvi1283]

somewhat informed no one has written bible...

[@somewhatinformed1208]

naqvi 128 in my country everyone has a printed version of a Bible. That's why we know the stories that are in it. We're allowed to read it all day long everyday if we want to. I'm told it's the best selling book in the world of all time

[@asifmetal666]

People say pigeon r urban city sky rat! This is so insulting to a amazing bird like this

[@lofttorogi]

nice video.! happy flying everyone 👊

[@lauraschmidt1362]

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

[@FLOSSYTREADWELL]

olfactory LOL they can't even smell their own lunch that well. visual.... Well if they arrived at their destination in a covered basket how do they recognise their way back 🤔. Magnetic sounds most reasonable to me. But I believe they use the sun & sense the time of day. Once they've hit the area they recognise they use visual cues. My dog found me after a year at me work he'd never been to. He escaped his current home & found me racing straight to me, it was magical. I visited him often after that. I wasn't allowed to keep him in my apartment.

[@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.

[@dansdoves3650]

My idea is that for long distance navigation. They use the position of the sun when available to get there east/west, while this is happening the little microscopic magnetic whatever in their head is turning like a compass needle tell it points to the general direction that they want to go. Then they travel until they find and see the big landmarks that they'll recognize like a lake or a river or even a city skyline. Then as they close in they'll see a freeway or a hiway they may have followed before or whatever short range landmarks they recognize. Now they are home..At the time my comment,March 2019.People that race pigeons and people involved with white dovereleases(white homers) are losing birds at an unusual rate across the country.I think it is due to the magnetic north instability and moving about.

[@adon2424]

It is combination of all three, plus a fourth, solar polarization of light.

[@rtbkbulliesandpitbulls1714]

The floating loft experiment didn't disprove any theory in my opinion , specially the magnetic field theory, because it could be countered by the fact that the registered the magnetism of the spot they first flew in the first place, same thing happens if you take a bird from my loft to yours release it and it'll come back to my house even if I took down my loft. Not a bright experiment.

[@MyOsirius]

From the comments below. It does not look like anyone appear to understand what they are talking about. Take a human being out to the middle of nowhere without a map. Leave him there. Find your way back on target as a pigeon does. Who is smarter? Food for thought! These birds are taking out hundreds of miles without a map!!!

[@paulmaguire2714]

I give mine a map.

[@Drobinin]

An excellent instructive video!

[@sidewinder9792]

wow have these people been to university ,,that italian woman must have been head of the class fair dinkum,, smell yeah,, i can cover the birds loft with plastic sheet and still get them home from 1000 km you must toss pigeons a couple of times a week,, say 3x5 2x15 2x25 as many 50kms once a week,,, then when you race they seem to follow the other pigeons it has a lot to do with winds which way they go what i,m trying to say is TAKE A PIGEON 100KMS FIRST TIME YOU WON,T SE IT AGAIN

[@pigeonbeats7586]

🐦

[@MaryJane-en8eh]

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