should start digging on Grassley's tweets.
Maybe break the code?
Julie Craves explains the bands on pigeons’ legs
Updated October 2, 2018
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A Rock Pigeon wears a leg band from the American Racing Pigeon Union. It was seen in February 2014 at the Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station of the Claremont Colleges in southern California. Photo by Nancy Hamlett/Bernard Field Station
In the column “Since You Asked” in every issue of BirdWatching, Contributing Editor Julie Craves answers readers’ questions about birds and bird behavior. Here’s a question from our August 2014 issue:
A pigeon in my yard has a band on its leg. It seems healthy and also tame, so I think it must belong to somebody. How do I find its owner? — Sharon Martin, Des Moines, Iowa
Banded pigeons are the same species as our familiar feral Rock Pigeon, Columba livia, but they are invariably lost racing or homing pigeons. Their leg bands are alphanumeric. The letters represent the owner’s national organization and local club, and the numbers represent the year the bird was hatched and its unique ID code. The first letters on a band might be AU for American Racing Pigeon Union or CU for Canadian Racing Pigeon Union. If you can read the rest of the band, you can contact the appropriate club, and it can help you find the owner.
Dems are desperate. Sending message by Pidgeon these days.
Find the club this one belonged to.
Look what I found when searching Grassly's Pidgin ID.
AU2020/SHE