December 1, 2006

Pigeon Packs Papoose — and It’s a Canary (Jul, 1939)

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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1939
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Pigeon Packs Papoose — and It’s a Canary

Delivering a pet canary “piggyback,” to a ten-year-old girl in a New York hospital, was a stunt chosen to open a national wild-life program a few weeks ago. The picture above shows the canary nestling in a tiny cockpit fastened to the back of a homing pigeon, all ready for its twenty-mile air jaunt.

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