carrier pigeon
homing pigeon , also: homer **

In 1938 they brought 150 carrier pigeons to the country.

Carrier pigeons were even used to make contact with England.

The message still had to be delivered, and I was running out of carrier pigeons.

He cannot have it yet since they must contact London right away to ask for a carrier pigeon.

I think I'll choose carrier pigeon, just for the novelty of it.

Finding a carrier pigeon there, he had replaced it with one of his own!

Short, urgent messages were sent after dark by carrier pigeon.

A carrier pigeon flies home, and so we say it "knows" the way.

Now would you like your prize sent through email or carrier pigeon?

Meanwhile, if Harry had any report, he could send it by carrier pigeon.

It was not the carrier pigeon that he was looking for.

But he refuses to concede that his party is going the way of the carrier pigeon.

"Of what use would the carrier pigeons then be?"

The messenger in the poem is, therefore, a carrier pigeon.

He ended up having to rely on carrier pigeons to communicate.

The crew then used carrier pigeons to announce the rescue.

You had to send carrier pigeons to the bar.

Today had been the deadline for the carrier pigeon.

"He pulled you out of the wreck and took the carrier pigeon.

As with the carrier pigeon, Lane said afterwards that he could have cried.

An even more rapid carrier pigeon post was maintained between the two cities.

Too long a report to send by carrier pigeon, so he decided to condense it.

In 1969, he received death threats and ransom demands by carrier pigeon.

Those favored with an invitation may wish to arrive by carrier pigeon.

The two decide to join the boycott, communicating by carrier pigeon all day.

There is little hope the other homing pigeons will return.

"Now to see if our little homing pigeon really knows its way home."

"Yes, and then the finding of another homing pigeon," added Jack.

His spare time favorite was the raising of homing pigeons.

And yet here I was, going back to him like a bloody homing pigeon to its loft.

The longest flight of a homing pigeon is 11,073 miles, completed in 15 days.

But unless you own a homing pigeon, it's not much of a spectator sport.

Homing pigeons have seen use since medieval times for carrying messages.

He also participated in an exhibition of wartime homing pigeons.

All my molecules would be like little homing pigeons.

Humans have used homing pigeons for more than 5,000 years to send messages over great distances.

What is it about kitchens at parties that brings out the homing pigeon in everybody?

Figure 4.9 The orientation of homing pigeons is influenced by changes in the magnetic field.

The homing pigeon is extremely skilled at doing so.

"It was just like a homing pigeon," she said.

Pigeon post is the use of homing pigeons to carry messages.

Homing pigeons transport material, usually messages on small pieces of paper, by air.

Inside were fifteen cardboard cylinders and in each, a homing pigeon.

- when you should be heading for the Nest like a homing pigeon?

"That fellow could not lead a flock of homing pigeons" is a favorite phrase.

Figure 4.8 Clock shifts alter the orientation of homing pigeons.

She had brought two thousand pounds' worth of trade, straight as a homing pigeon, to the place where it was most required.

The classmates headed like homing pigeons straight down the main hallway and to the right.

Jack was thinking just at that moment of the other message his companion and he had found attached to the homing pigeon.

She will find her way to Paris as the homing pigeon finds its cote.