High-flying pigeons

High-flying pigeons or high-fliers are a group of porpoise pigeons that are characterized by their flight style. Your flight is determined by high and sustained, elegant flying and circling.

The high-fliers must immediately after leaving or opening the shock , without sitting down until the roof, up screws in wide spirals to a considerable height and then for hours, often recognizable only as points, draw their facing, secure, elegant circles and execute swiveling movements . The more agile and persistent their flight, the more valuable the pigeons .

Most high fliers are squad pilots . They are released in troops (stings, flights, swarms ), “hunted” or “stung”. During the flight they hold up: they climb, circle and swing in a tightly closed group without individual pigeons separating from the flock or even falling.

Those high-flying and long-term flyers who do not show their flying skills in teams, but rather from the beginning, are called solo flyers . Their dressage and supervision require more time from the keeper or owner of these pigeons for training than that for troop pilots or tumblers, a second group of porpoise pigeons.

Bruno Dürigen only referred to the Hanoverian , Celler and Bremen races as solo pilots . Troop pilots are the Danzig, Berlin and Viennese, the Brunswick, Dutch, Stralsund , Danes, Hamburgers, Cracow, Prague and Pest. The English tipplers are excellent long-term fliers.

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Bruno Dürigen: Poultry farming from its current rational point of view. Second revised edition, Paul Parey publishing house (publishing house for agriculture, horticulture and forestry), Berlin 1906, p. 516f archive.org