"NEW rules which restrict movements of pigeons in the wake of the bird flu outbreak could spell the death of cross-Channel racing, an expert fancier claimed today."
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/local/display.var.1395865.0.0.php
More political madness! How exactly do they plan to quarantine the thousands of migrating geese? Not to mention warblers, swifts, martins and swallows, Bewick and Whooper swans, to name just a few. Pigeon racing is a tiny proportion of bird movement in relation to what happens naturally.
