Operation Columba
Jon Day: Pigeon Intelligence, 4 April 2019
Secret Pigeon Service
by Gordon Corera.
William Collins, 326 pp., £20, February 2018,978 0 00 822030 3 Show More
by Gordon Corera.
William Collins, 326 pp., £20, February 2018,
“... 1980s, the US Coastguard trained pigeons to recognise people lost at sea as part of Project Sea Hunt. The birds were placed in observation bubbles mounted on the bottom of helicopters and trained to peck at buttons when they spotted a scrap of coloured fabric floating in the sea. Pigeons were able to find the fabric 93 per cent of the time. Human subjects ... ”