Here is an awesome trailer for the upcoming series on Animal Planet featuring Mike Tyson racing pigeons. Let’s hope the national exposure will increase the interest in the sport.

You know Mike Tyson as a world heavyweight champion. In March 2011, meet Mike Tyson: pigeon lover. “Taking on Tyson,” is an all-new series, on Animal Planet

If only the inmates knew the maximum carrying capacity of their smugglers . . .

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Kinda fun to see homers included in a professionally produced music video. The end is nice, too, although I don’t think those are huge flocks of homers – probably starlings.

NPR did a nice little story about a scientific study using GPS devices carried by homing pigeons in little backpacks. The devices recorded the pigeon’s movement five times every second. The full results of the study can be found at the Journal Nature.