"MCRPA": Its getting bigger now!

[janelicious]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WVbvXbIa4I

this video was taken during the docktraining in santander cebu...


at first dli jud ko agree mo apil ako hubby ani nga lumba2x sa pati but later on wla na jud ko kapugong sa ko hubby coz maynlang daw mao ni iya kalingawan and im so amazed nga nagka anam kadako ila grupo and even more bigger than i though..."CONGRATZ TO ALL MEMBERS OF MCRPA"

[MrCool]

How do they do it...?
How do homing pigeons findthere way home ... ? Homing pigeons were used by the Greeks 5000 years ago to carry messages. Through selective breeding of the homing pigeon, their ability to home has greatly
improved from the time man first discovered their homing instinct.
Homing pigeons find they're way home with there many different senses. They use sight, sound,
smell, and the earth's magnetic fields. They use sight to track the position of the sun and look for
land marks clues. Pigeons hear sounds (11 octaves below middle C) that the human ear can't detect.
Such as the low rumble of wind blowing over a mountain range or the sounds of waves crashing on
the shore. They us smell to detect lakes and many other smells of the environment around them. Pigeons
can detect the earth's magnetic field. They use the magnetic fields much like we do with a compass to
navigate there way home.

Racing Pigeons...?
How are homing pigeons raced ... ?
Each fancier's loft is measured for it's miles by GPS or by a survey company for the distance
to the liberation site. The fanciers takes there birds to the club house to be marked with numbered rubber leg bands or registered with a electronic leg chip band.
They are then put into crates and loaded onto a truck or trailer and took to the liberation site. All the birds are released at the same time. When the birds arrive back to there own lofts the electronic leg band is scanned into the electronic clock or the numbered rubber leg band is removed and
punched into mechanical clock. After the birds are clocked in the fancier takes his clock back to the club house. His times are read and figured into yards per minute. The fancier with the bird that has the fastest yards per minute wins the race.

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