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From: horvath@granite.cr.bull.com (John Horvath)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Lost Homing Pigeon
Keywords: cockroach, vermin
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.140149.18599@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 14:01:49 GMT
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What distinquishes this bird from any other pidgeon? Why is it a
homing pidgeon? If its really a homing pidgeon, could it really
be lost? Another words, isn't the term "lost homing pidgeon" an
oxymoron? Don't all pidgeons do these kinds of annoying things?

And more questions: After all that talk about what we were
going to discuss in this group, why are you talking about an
invertebrate? Everyone knows that pidgeons are really cockroaches,
not birds.      ;')

Speaking of misnomers, why do they call them rock doves too. I think
this is a campaign by the pidgeon people to vindicate these creatures.
I have never seen one of these things out in the wild unless they
were flying from one urban blight to the next. Seriously, has anyone
ever seen them in any habitat that resembled their typical concrete
domiciles, something like canyon floors?