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Anyone ever found a pigeon ring? They contain dating details of the pigeon and ownership. For example if you found WHU 77P 1324 you would know it was a Welsh pigeon (WHU...Welsh Homing Union) and was ringed in 1977. Seeing as pigeons have been ringed for over 100 years there must be a few about. Modern ones are encased in plastic coating.

YES JON, I PUT A LINK ON HERE SOME TIME AGO WHERE TO SEND THE NUMBERS AND LOCATION FOUND,AS OWNERS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THIER BIRDS,CRONGE

Cheers Rich. I also have the addresses for the pigeons ringed in the UK WHU, Wales, GB, NHU and others. Even the odd foreigner turns up.

yes mate ive found 2 myself... didnt keep them though  :-\

Ive found a few but like most Buckles i either pass then on or bin them
I remember at the last Rooksbridge rally someone showed me a pigeon ring with a leg attached  :o

I think most of the rings owners end up a tasty snack for a hawks
Ive got a Pigeon fancier next door and last week i was playing with the dog in the garden and i seen the guy next door banging on his locked patio door trying to get out
Turned out he was watching his prized bird getting mauled but an Hawk.and he was trying to distract it  lol
he said he,d paid £1,000 for this bird  :o :o :o :o :o i wouldnt pay that got a car ! lol

He's probably writing on his Pigeon forum as we speak about his neighbour who goes out in all coditions with his detector which he unbelievably spent £1000s on :)

Lol!!! I like that one Bigwig!!  BTW the record price for a pigeon is £110 800...not bad.

Hi Bigwig
He wouldnt say that about me  i havnt been detecting in bad weather for years   lol
But i bet hes saying ." Since my Neighbour has started shooting again i seem to have a few less Pigeons" lol

 

what a coincidence !....i found one at chepstow today !!..... :o....whu 95....byron

Hi Byron, was it one of the plastic coated ones or metallic? What condition was it in?

hmm that sitre would be handy if you find it again, iv'e got a couple of the older ones here somewhere,

http://www.irishhomingunion.com/page7.htm (http://www.irishhomingunion.com/page7.htm)

This has a list of contacts. Although there must be hundreds of thousands of pigeons ringed every year. I saw a directory for one year just of English pigeon fanciers. It was like a Thomson phone directory!

 Thats handy Jon, thanks,  i'll have to dig mine out sometime when i get a chance,
 some of the older ones are worth a few bob too,

Well my family has been racing pigeons since the 1920s so our garden must be full of them the amount that's been buried over the years! Have to go digging if they are worth summat!

hi jon....it's one of the plastic coated variety..... ;)...it's WHU 95.......byron

yes Jon,  from  back then  they would be,  the old aluminium ones i think,

 here's a few examples JOn,  though i read a few years ago that some of the older ones can fetch a few pounds each.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/__pigeon+rings_W0QQ_dmdZ2?rvr_id=&crlp=1083693062_228459_228460&UA=WVI7&GUID=63fb4c431250a0aad5a11751fe633afb&agid=438669122&MT_ID=10&keyword=pigeon+rings&ff4=228459_228460 (http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/__pigeon+rings_W0QQ_dmdZ2?rvr_id=&crlp=1083693062_228459_228460&UA=WVI7&GUID=63fb4c431250a0aad5a11751fe633afb&agid=438669122&MT_ID=10&keyword=pigeon+rings&ff4=228459_228460)

interesting Al. I still have a jarful of unused ones from the 80s and 90s. At 99p a shot I'll have a new Minelab.... ;D ;D ;D