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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (838983)	2/24/2015 6:07:29 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574541

A lot has come out since Friday. Corn has been proven a liar. A respectable publication would have fired him already.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (838983)	2/24/2015 6:16:48 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1574541

In 1997 disaster befell tens of thousands of racing pigeons released from Nantes in France as part of a race held to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Racing Pigeon Association in England. 60,000 pigeons were released but only a few birds ever arrived back at their lofts throughout southern England. One theory suggests that the sonic boom created by Concorde as it flew over the English Channel, at the precise time the pigeons would have been at the same point, completely disorientated the birds, compromising their inbuilt navigation system. Yet racing pigeons survive. One racing pigeon recently sold for a staggering $132,517.00! Not so lucky was the passenger pigeon in North America in the early part of the 20th century. It is estimated that there were 3-5 billion passenger pigeons in North America at the time. Flocks of 100,000's of the birds would blacken the skies as they flew over but early settlers managed to wipe out every last bird by 1914 through over-hunting.