pigeons

On t.p.: Everything about purchase, care, management, diet, diseases, and behavior of pigeons : with a special chapter, Understanding pigeons.

Explains how pigeons, descendants of wild rock doves, live their lives, raise their young, and have been useful throughout history to people.

Discusses the types of pigeons used for carrying messages and their use in wartime.

In this book, young readers will learn about how homing pigeons are able to carry messages across great distances.

A beginning handbook on raising homing pigeons, which covers lofts, feed, health, breeding, training, flying, racing, and showing.

When the pigeon Barnaby buys shortly after his family moves to the country flies away, he and his sister Flora begin to help an elderly neighbor care for his flock of pigeons.

Nostalgic for his country home, Chester Cricket braves the busy city streets in search of a tree and finds a new friend in the process.

Sid, a pigeon, takes up residence in the lower loop of the B on San Francisco's Bay Hotel sign, but he gets a terrible fright when he returns home one evening to find the sign, along with his companion, nest, and two about-to-hatch eggs, has been moved.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of doves, including the mourning dove, the ground-dove, and the rock-dove.

A homing pigeon loses a race when he decides to stop for a snack.