Talk:Homing Pigeons
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I think your last paragraph is severely erronious. The original writer has become confused between passenger pigeons, a North American species which have, indeed become extinct, and homing pigeons, which are alive and well and being raced all over the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon
An edit would be in order.