Pigeon Collection (page 7)

Columba jouyi, Ryukyu pigeon
Photograph of Columba jouyi specimen. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2009. This species is now extinct

Columba versicolor, Bonin wood pigeon
Photograph of Columba versicolor specimen. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2009. This species is now extinct

Fancy domestic pigeons
Mounted fancy pigeon varieties, similar to those studied by Charles Darwin as he developed his ideas on evolution through natural selection

Columba livia, domestic pigeon
Watercolour by unknown artist (c. 1850). Originally illustrated in one of five volumes bought by the Natural History Museum by an unknown source from Japan

Basilica of St Jesus Christ Blessing. Decoration of the atrium. Noah sends a carrier pigeon from the ark at the end of the flood

The Dead Tree. Things you might find in and around a dead tree include a dove, an owl, a bat, a pigeon or even a field mouse

Pixies and Pigeon Post

Pigeons and doves on rooftops
A variety of pigeons and doves on rooftops. Date: circa early 20th century

The Carrier Dove. The Return. Two women holding a bird with a message Date: ca. 1847

Lyon, Feeding tame pigeons in Place des Terreaux
Lyon, France - feeding tame pigeons in Place des Terreaux Date: 1919

Feeding pigeons before St Marks Basilica, Venice, Italy Date: circa 1910s

Birds / Pigeon
A nesting wood pigeon. Date: 1930s

Regent Street 1927
Pigeon s-eye view of the street, with many open-top buses. Date: 1927

Military Pigeon Loft and attendants - Kazakhstan Date: 1904

Pigeon Study
Pigeons and towers reflected in puddles in Budapest, Hungary. Date: 1930s

Feeding the pigeons outside St Pauls Cathedral Date: circa 1910s

British pilot with messenger pigeon, WW1
A British seaplane pilot in the cockpit, attaching a message to the leg of a messenger pigeon during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Flying pigeon
A flying pigeon photographed with a high-speed camera, resulting in an interesting flying saucer shape. circa 1940s

Pigeon hygiene -- the only parts requiring human intervention are the claws, which are washed in Quassia chips to kill insects. circa 1940s

Man with racing pigeons
A man with racing pigeons, sent to London from all over Britain and from European countries to take part in an Old Comrades Show involving over 2000 birds at the Royal Horticultural Hall. circa 1940s

Carrier pigeons at Sorrus, France, WW1
Carrier pigeons enjoying a bath in a baking tin full of water at Sorrus, France, during the First World War. Date: 2 June 1918

Princess Elizabeth uses the Pigeon Post
Photograph of the Queen Elizabeth (b. 1926) when Princess Elizabeth, together with her sister Princess Margaret in the grounds of Buckingham Palace

Paper House at Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts
Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Massachusetts - the interior of the Paper House - made entirely of newspapers. Built by Mr. Elis F

Los Angeles Pigeon Farm, California
Los Angeles Pigeon Farm, overlooking the Los Angeles River and surrounded by fields. Hundreds of pigeons perched on top of two of the cotes

Daphnis and Chloe (3)
Daphnis tells Chloe the story of the wood pigeon

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Office man - weasel
Catch him asleep. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of an old pen pusher, from a weasel. Sat at his office desk for a generation

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Foolish Tommy Pigeon
Foolish Tommy Pigeon. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Dove or pigeon box

Portrait bust of Benvenuto Cellini, with pigeon
A portrait bust on Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), celebrated Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician, on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy, with a pigeon perched on its head

French pigeon communications WWI
French communications via carrier pigeons during World War I

The Beyazidiye Mosque with pigeons, Constantinople
The Beyazidiye Mosque (built between 1501-1506) in Constantinople, with pigeons. The Mosque encorporated a number of educational buildings, public baths and tombs (turbes)

Lunchtime
A woman stands by a window eating her lunch and watching as birds fly in to take their share. She doesn t seem to mind them stealing her lunch and watches on wistfully

Preparing the Christmas Feast by Pauline Baynes
A kitchen scene from the early 17th century along with examples of dishes eaten at Christmas during this period. These include a bowl of lemon mincemeat, a beef and samphire hash, scorched chestnuts

Pigeon Island, Beirut
Pigeon Island, off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon

India - Pigeon Post envelope
A Pigeon Post envelope used to send a message to Vice Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert CB C.M.G from Kalyan to Bombay (a distance of thirty miles)

Early Turkish anti-aircraft gun team
Early anti-aircraft gunners. Turkish troops shooting down a Pigeon flying machine in the early years of the First World War

Princess Elizabeth of York uses the Pigeon Post
Photograph of the Queen Elizabeth (b. 1926) when Princess Elizabeth, together with her sister Princess Margaret in the grounds of Buckingham Palace

Pigeon on a leafy perch
A perched pigeon. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Homing Pigeon Contest at the Alexandra Palace, 1875
Engraving showing a number of scenes from the Great Homing Pigeon Contest, held at the Alexandra Palace, London, 1875

Pigeon Container on a British Paratrooper, Second World War
Photograph showing a pigeon container strapped to the stomach of a British paratrooper, 1944. Pigeons are one of the oldest and most reliable forms of military communication

Franco-Prussian War. A Friend in Need
A Lady and her maid catch their pigeon as it returns home with a message

Mail Sorting Office
Postal workers at the General Post Office (Britain), manually sorting mail into pigeon holes

Pigeon Used in Crash
During World War One, a British flying-boat is forced to ditch in the sea : a homing pigeon is released to summon help

Pigeon in Alices Face
As Alice stretches a large pigeon flies into her face

Live Pigeon Shooting
Sportsmen shooting live pigeons as they are released from cages: Theres no rural sport surpasses pigeon shooting, the text says

German Pigeon Post 1915
Carrier pigeons used by the German army during the First World War

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