Pigeon racers keen to know if mobile phone towers are the reason some birds never make it home - ABC News

They are the questions that have long ruffled the feathers of pigeon racers — where do the birds go when they go awry? And why don't some ever make it home?Pigeon racers constantly debate whether telecommunication signals, the Earth's magnetic field, or even solar flares disorientate their birds

"Every weekend it's the same stupid question we keep asking ourselves. But it's an intriguing question. "There has been a bit of upsurge in the number of birds that get lost, or get lost for a period of time," he said."It seems to have corresponded with around the time mobile phones started, we had a pick-up in the amount of losses.

The Federal Government's Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency researches and monitors the effects of mobile phone towers. "Mobile phone towers and other wireless telecommunications sources, including 5G, emit low-level radiofrequency electromagnetic fields which are also called radio waves," Dr Karipidis said.

Dr Maurer has done extensive studies into wild bird migration and believed variations in the Earth's magnetic fields was a possible cause for the missing pigeons.He believed urban development, resulting in habitat loss, was a more likely factor.

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Facilitating my kids being able to use the mobile towers is the reason they won’t leave home

No

Not if they use Google maps.

Depends if the hawks that ate the pigeons had been perched on mobile phone towers.

and here I thought rugby was the stupidest sport ever.

ABC now that’s hard hitting journalism

Maybe they don't want to be slaves to your gambling habits.

My cat caught one in my backyard once, so there’s that as well

Betteridge's law...

There were pigeons failing to make it home long before mobile phones were invented.

I heard that Mike Tyson has trained his pigeons to bite their ears off. It’s a global problem. His highly trained Pounce Pigeons are legion.

Thank you.

And bats too!

The answer is in the article!

Who cares. Can’t believe this is news

5G tower radiation is clearly having an effect on the choice of BS stories that are running.

I went to woolies the other day and took me ages to find my car, could it be mobile phone towers to blame ? 🤔

Only the 5G ones

No, they are just making excuses for stopping at the pub.

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