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Fastest Pigeons I've ever seen.
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Driving to a meeting earlier today, I noticed a small pack of pigeons flying behind a semi truck.

By the time I got my BlackBerry camera up and running, they had changed course a bit.

I still caught a good clip of them flying along the highway. When I first noticed them, I was moving at about 100 km/h.

I didn't know that Pigeons could fly at that speed, so I found this to be real cool.

Cheers.

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Added: Jun-5-2012 Occurred On: Jun-5-2012
By: figatomek
In: Other Entertainment, Other Items from Liveleakers
Tags: Pigeons, flying fast, fast flying pigeons, figatomek, Toronto,
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (load item map)
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  • I was going to call BS, but like a good little LL'r did some homework.


    "Their average flying speed over moderate distances (500 miles) is around 80 km/h (50 mph),[citation needed] but speeds of up to 177 km/h (110 mph) have been observed in top racers for short distance (100 miles)."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon


    "Racing Homing Pigeons have been clocked flying 92.5 mph average speed on a 400 mile race."

    http://www.fbipigeons.com/PIGEON%20FACTS.htm



    " More..

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    ommadawn (3210.44)

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  • Maybe they were having a race.

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    omegaic (68.96)

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  • They're haulin ass. Still one of my favourite USA phrases,

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    Glennon (32.90)

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  • Might be racing pigeons, they are bred for speed.

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    Penguinister (478.50)  

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  • So, it turns out that pigeons are adept aviators. I'm led to believe that they're quite good at navigating too. Today is full of surprises.

    Posted Jun-6-2012 By 
    irit8d (133.38)  

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  • Sweeet Fig's
    Damn you manage to find some Fantastic Stuff.
    'cough Voted'
    nice one!!!

    modify---

    you super slick fast with the camera.
    like the snap shots of the "smoking wasp"
    ;)
    very nice capture..

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    Unpossible (1221.60)  

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    • @Unpossible

      Thanks buddy!

      +1

      I was actually a bit slow on the camera work - they were literally 10 feet from a semi truck in front of me when I noticed them...

      By the time I go the camera up and runnin - they were on the side of the highway...

      Cool none the less.

      Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
      figatomek (12192.68)  

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  • They're late for a statue pooping appointment

    Posted Jun-6-2012 By 
    tihZ_Ho (396.02)  

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  • wow thats seam like pretty good reason to endanger public lives with that stupid phone. Leave this shit to national geographic will ya ?

    Posted Jun-7-2012 By 
    Xenon (5.90)  

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  • Did they maybe have a kick ass tail wind or something? I've never seen them fly that fast either.

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    dirtbiker201 (1447.48)  

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  • km/h isn't a real speed

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    govett (906.40)

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  • Birds are like, fuck your horses... we got bird power.

    Posted Jun-6-2012 By 
    Damon691104 (63.30)  

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  • You may not see pigeons flying like this everyday, but one thing you definitely see everyday are fucking morons like this fucking around on their cell phones while driving. Idiot.

    Posted Jun-6-2012 By 
    mike03253 (0.20)

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    • @mike03253

      Thanks for your two cents.

      Glad you enjoyed the video...Hope you were entertained for 0:43 seconds.

      Glad you enjoyed it.

      BTW - Hi New Guy.

      Posted Jun-6-2012 By 
      figatomek (12192.68)  

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  • the next video is the crash hes going to get into for taking his cell out of his pocket and filming birds while driving.

    Posted Jun-5-2012 By 
    Ahhyoou (241.50)  

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