carrier pigeons
Winged mail service
Carrier pigeons are homing pigeons trained to carry messages, historically used for military and commercial communication before telegraphs and telephones.
The birds navigate home over long distances, so messages travel one direction—from wherever the pigeon is released back to its home loft.
Carrier pigeons delivered news from the front lines.
- homingSteering toward a target
- messengerOne who delivers communications
- homing pigeonsBirds bred to return
- home baseCentral point of operations
- loftSpace beneath the roof
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- ancient communicationsmoke signal, hieroglyphs, pictographs, pictograms, courier
- ancient mailcouriers, messengers, postal routes, relay stations, mail delivery
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- pigeonsrock dove, homing pigeons, homer, squabs, racing pigeons
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carrier pigeonsemail
Digital written communication
instant messaging · satellite communication · telegraph wires · smartphones · 5G networks
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Electrical message system
telephone · radio · electronic mail · fax machines · wireless signals
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