{"id":284498,"date":"2021-06-25T20:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/worst-day-ever-for-pigeon-racing-as-5000-birds-vanish\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T20:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:33:21","slug":"worst-day-ever-for-pigeon-racing-as-5000-birds-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/worst-day-ever-for-pigeon-racing-as-5000-birds-vanish\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Worst day ever’ for pigeon racing as 5,000 birds vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Worst day ever’ for pigeon racing as 5,000 birds vanish<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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They flew the coop \u2014 and vanished into thin air. <\/p>\n

Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5,000 homing pigeons seemingly disapp<\/a>eared during a race across the UK. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen one of the very worst ever racing days in our history,\u201d pigeon hobbyist Richard Sayers wrote in a Facebook post<\/a> chronicling the feathery fiasco, which occurred Saturday after 9,000 racing birds took off from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on a journey to the northeast. And while the 170-mile round-trip<\/a> flight should\u2019ve only taken three hours, over half the avian competitors were still unaccounted for as of last night.<\/p>\n

They were reportedly part of 250,000 pigeons released in approximately 50 racing events across the country \u2014 with just 10% returning on time and another tens of thousands reported missing, the Sun reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

This meteorological event may have distorted Earth\u2019s magnetic field, which the pigeons use to navigate like a meteorological GPS. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear what prompted the squab squadrons to seemingly vanish into thin air. However, Sayers, whose local pigeon coop reportedly lost as many as 300 birds in the flight-marish phenomenon, said most breeders are \u201cblaming the atmospheric conditions, possibly a solar storm above the clouds that created static in the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ian Evans, CEO of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association<\/a>, finds the Bermuda Triangle-esque disappearance especially baffling as \u201cweather conditions across the country were good.\u201d He added that \u201cthere was nothing to suggest that any birds would struggle to get home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never heard of anything like this,\u201d lamented the bereaved bird boss, 45, who\u2019s reportedly owned pigeons since he was 9 years old. <\/p>\n

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Ian Evans, CEO of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association, called the disappearance \u201cunusual.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To help re-coop-erate losses, Sayers is imploring \u201canyone who comes across a racing pigeon to feed, water and let it rest,\u201d whereupon \u201cthere\u2019s an 80% chance the birds will get on their way after a few days,\u201d he told the Daily Mail<\/a>. The North Yorkshire native added that the homing pigeons can be identified by a leg ring denoting their \u201ccode and number.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pigeon fancier Richard Sayers (seated center) with family. The North Yorkshire native said his missing homing pigeons can be identified by a leg ring denoting their \u201ccode and number.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To prevent such disasters in the future, Royal Pigeon Racing Association boss Evans is holding talks with the UK\u2019s national weather service to obtain reports on any unusual solar activity.<\/p>\n

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Sayers and a pal hold a commemorative plate honoring his favorite bird species.<\/figcaption>
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“#’Worst day ever’ for pigeon racing as 5,000 birds vanish” They flew the coop \u2014 and vanished into thin air. Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5,000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen one of the very worst ever racing days in our history,\u201d pigeon hobbyist Richard Sayers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/pigeons-66-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[110313,110451,103117],"class_list":["post-284498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-25-21","tag-disappearances","tag-pigeons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}