The top 10 fastest racing pigeons

[Devo1956]

You can take a guess, and see if you are right. Go on give it a go.


https://youtu.be/jwA06mdUvgo?si=c5IrsuZ1Ayy7rItJ

[MIL]

I saw this a few months ago

There are some huge pigeons missing from that list

[Devo1956]

I saw this a few months ago

There are some huge pigeons missing from that list

I thought that Mike, also some of the speeds being maintained over distance looks good.

[Spieker-Loft]

Last year We had a youngster clocked at 1824 meters per minute. She was the 2nd fastest pigeon in all of germany from over 120.000 pigeons. Made into the tauben-markt magazine etc. Definitely alot of pigeons missing there but still a great video !

[Steve Howells]

They missed the fastest of all

The highest race speed recorded is one of 2952m 3229yd per min (177.14km/h 110.07mph) in the East Anglian Federation race from East Croydon, Surrey on 8 May 1965 when the 1428 birds were backed by a powerful south-south-west wind. The winner was owned by A. Vigeon & Son, Wickford, Essex.

[Devo1956]

They missed the fastest of all

The highest race speed recorded is one of 2952m 3229yd per min (177.14km/h 110.07mph) in the East Anglian Federation race from East Croydon, Surrey on 8 May 1965 when the 1428 birds were backed by a powerful south-south-west wind. The winner was owned by A. Vigeon & Son, Wickford, Essex.

That was some speed that Steve, i wonder what family of birds that was from.

[Devo1956]

Last year We had a youngster clocked at 1824 meters per minute. She was the 2nd fastest pigeon in all of germany from over 120.000 pigeons. Made into the tauben-markt magazine etc. Definitely alot of pigeons missing there but still a great video !

That was a good result Leon, yes i saw that magazine. I put it up on this site, There was a photo of Jan and his family.

[MIL]

If its "fastest" then its list is fundamentally flawed

If the focus is "best" - well then its still wide of the mark

[Steve Howells]

They missed the fastest of all

The highest race speed recorded is one of 2952m 3229yd per min (177.14km/h 110.07mph) in the East Anglian Federation race from East Croydon, Surrey on 8 May 1965 when the 1428 birds were backed by a powerful south-south-west wind. The winner was owned by A. Vigeon & Son, Wickford, Essex.

That was some speed that Steve, i wonder what family of birds that was from.

Who knows, but I bet it didn't begin with van Back i the day the Westcotts were popular in the area plus the old East Anglian pieds but what there origins were who knows. Amazing the record has stood for 49 years.

[Murray]

With the right conditions and a good strong wind they can get along alright.
Last weekend the winner of the combine race here went 1979 metres per minute over 517 kilometres.