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homing pigeons

n. (homing pigeon English)

Usage examples of "homing pigeons".

On the third day after the land-mine scare, the first fleet of drone magnetic homing pigeons was launched.

And although they cannot run a maze, many species of bird - including homing pigeons - have an almost incredible capacity to form internal maps of their environment, to navigate over thousands of miles or to remember sites where they have nested or stored food.

They poised as helpless as homing pigeons under attack by a falcon.

And homing pigeons were no use without messages, and messages meant writing.

They had returned once more, like homing pigeons to their nests or the swallows to Capistrano.

I heard of a man who made a fortune selling homing pigeons, and he only had the one!

Someone had broken into the minister's quarters, and messily killed a cote of homing pigeons there.