Carrier Pigeon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A carrier pigeon is a homing pigeon (specifically a domesticated rock pigeon, Columba livia) that was used to carry messages. Unfortunately, due to hunting, these pigeons went extinct in 1957. Using pigeons to carry messages was generally called "pigeon post." Most homing or racing type varieties were used to carry messages. There is no specific breed actually called "carrier pigeon," but carrier pigeons were a subspecies of the pigeonius hominius, which, as mentioned previously, went extinct in 1957. Carrier pigeons that were the basic Racing Homer were used to carry messages in World War I and World War II. Thirty-two pigeons were presented with the Dickin Medal.