dangerous
WTH
pidgeon wars, people have flocks and they war. They do it in Brooklyn
All the birds are marked for ownership
You're supposed to return it
But usually they don't want it back if its injured.
It's a sport from the old Country
They may have it also in New Jersey and some places in Canada?
"Ghost Dog" was the movie that featured it.
It's a sport of supposedly some very rough characters
The tag on the ankle is the ID and tells you who the pigeon belongs to, what team its on
official trailer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dog:_The_Way_of_the_Samurai
"Sonny Valerio decide to get rid of Ghost Dog. Louie knows practically nothing about Ghost Dog, however, as the hitman communicates only by homing pigeon. The mobsters start by tracing all the pigeon coops in town. They find Ghost Dog's cabin atop a building and kill his pigeons. Ghost Dog realizes he must kill Vargo and his men or they will kill him and his master."
I guess the gangsters communicate by homing pidgeon