That’s funny you bring that up. Over my lifetime I have gotten some banded pigeons. These are the ones I still have, a half dozen or so were colored rubber with letters and numbers on them. Those degraded over time. Maybe one in two or three hundred or more have had a band.
Figured they were homers or racers that went feral.
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Pigeon for supper last night.
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