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* Several messenger pigeons were carried across the English Channel during the D-Day invasion. After one officer landed on the beach and let his birds go (they all carried duplicate messages), most of them flew in the wrong direction -- inland. He cursed them for traitors, but they ignored him.
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* Several messenger pigeons were carried across the English Channel during the D-Day invasion. invasion by war correspondents. After one officer landed on the beach and Reuters reporter Charles Lynch let his birds go (they all carried duplicate messages), go, carrying his reports of the action, most of them flew in the wrong direction -- inland. He cursed them for traitors, but they ignored him.
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** There is no excuse in ''Dark Dawn'' for Isaac to be sending Kraden's own pigeon back to him, after Kraden sent it to Goma Plateau with a message for Isaac, especially since Kraden was traveling at the time. Presumably [[AWizardDidIt an Adept did it]].
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** There is no excuse in ''Dark Dawn'' for Isaac to be sending Kraden's own pigeon back to him, after Kraden sent it to Goma Plateau with a message for Isaac, especially since Kraden was traveling at the time. Presumably [[AWizardDidIt an Adept did it]].He later sends it to take a message to Piers, even though Piers is also traveling. Lampshaded when Tyrell mentions he wouldn't know where to find Piers.
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* In ''TheGreatRace'' reporter Maggie DuBois uses homing pigeons to deliver her stories to the newspaper sponsoring the race. The pigeons return directly to the newspaper building, not their dovecots.
* ''TopSecret''. The traitor [[spoiler:Nigel]] uses homing pigeons to send messages to the East German government.
* ''TopSecret''. The traitor [[spoiler:Nigel]] uses homing pigeons to send messages to the East German government.
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dovecots, and reach it almost immediately even though they're crossing most of the U.S. to get there.
* ''TopSecret''. The traitor [[spoiler:Nigel]] uses homing pigeons to send messages to the East German government. Played for laughs, as the pigeons are shown wearing aviator's helmets.
* ''TopSecret''. The traitor [[spoiler:Nigel]] uses homing pigeons to send messages to the East German government. Played for laughs, as the pigeons are shown wearing aviator's helmets.
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* ''TopSecret''. The traitor [[spoiler:Nigel]] uses homing pigeons to send messages to the East German government.
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* In ''{{Suikoden IV}}'', the Gaien Marine Knights Academy keeps several messenger birds for communicating with other islands. According to the game map, there aren't too many places for the poor things to ''land'' during their flights back and forth... Not that it matters much, given that [[spoiler: the whole flock gets slaughtered shortly before a surprise attack]].
** Mister Ramada also has a pet hawk that can act as a messenger. The final war sequence and the climax of the game is kicked off by it delivering a vital message, requiring it to find a ship somewhere in the middle of the ocean [[spoiler: while injured severly enough for it to [[AlmostDeadGuy die immediately]] after delivery]].
** Mister Ramada also has a pet hawk that can act as a messenger. The final war sequence and the climax of the game is kicked off by it delivering a vital message, requiring it to find a ship somewhere in the middle of the ocean [[spoiler: while injured severly enough for it to [[AlmostDeadGuy die immediately]] after delivery]].
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As useful as pigeon post proved during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, this method of communication possessed some considerable drawbacks: the homing pigeons' capacity to reliably deliver messages was entirely dependent upon their ability to locate their nest and mate. Thus, the pigeons had to first be transported from their nesting location to the senders' location, and once released, the bird would fly straight to its home and not budge thereafter; for mutual conversation, both parties needed either several pigeons nested in the other's location or some means of retrieving them after sending a message. (Though sometimes a pigeon could be trained to go back and forth between two locations, one counting as "home" and the other being a major food source) Homing pigeons were also prone to getting lost or eaten by predators during particularly difficult journeys, which necessitated sending the same message with several pigeons, some or all of which could fall into the hands of a third party. Indeed, the Germans even trained falcons to do specifically this during the aforementioned siege.
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As useful as pigeon post proved to be during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, this method of communication possessed some considerable drawbacks: the homing pigeons' capacity to reliably deliver messages was entirely dependent upon their ability to locate their nest and mate. Thus, the pigeons had to first be transported from their nesting location to the senders' location, location (via slower-than-pigeon transit), and once released, the bird would fly straight to its home and not budge thereafter; for mutual conversation, both parties needed either several pigeons nested transported in the other's location to send home, or some means of retrieving them after sending a message. (Though sometimes message.[[hottip:*:Sometimes a pigeon could be trained to go back and forth between two locations, one counting as "home" and the other being a major food source) source, but moving on.]] Homing pigeons were also prone to getting lost or eaten by predators during particularly difficult journeys, which necessitated sending the same message with several pigeons, some or all of which could fall into the hands of a third party. Indeed, the Germans even trained falcons to do specifically this during the aforementioned siege.
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* ''[[RealmOfTheElderlings The Rain Wilds Chronicles]]'' has a framing story told via letters between two pigeon handlers. No, the one way trip thing does not come up somehow.
** Actually, this one was handled pretty well. The pigeons are used by a pair of interdependent cities to communicate, and are sent to various coops by boat. The pigeon handlers get reprimanded at one point for using such an expensive system for personal letters, and important letters are sent with several pigeons.
** Actually, this one was handled pretty well. The pigeons are used by a pair of interdependent cities to communicate, and are sent to various coops by boat. The pigeon handlers get reprimanded at one point for using such an expensive system for personal letters, and important letters are sent with several pigeons.
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** Actually, this one
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* The {{Tintin}} adventure ''The Blue Lotus'' showed the villain Mitsuhirato receiving and sending messages by carrier pigeon.
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* Well averted in Stephen Donaldson's novel,"The Mirror of her Dreams", wherein Terisa Morgan, the protagonist from Earth, desperately lectures her Fantasy World interrogator on the limitations of Earth carrier pigeons (one-way communication, not two-way); he's never heard of them and suspects her of using pigeons to pass messages, even though SHE alerted HIM to the method. Unfortunately, the only person around who could corroborate this is the Big Bad (who did, indeed, get the idea and the pigeons from Earth, but is unlikely to speak up for her).
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* Well averted in Stephen Donaldson's novel,"The Mirror of her Dreams", wherein Terisa Morgan, the protagonist from Earth, desperately lectures her Fantasy World interrogator on the limitations of Earth carrier homing pigeons (one-way communication, not two-way); he's never heard of them and suspects her of using pigeons to pass messages, even though SHE alerted HIM to the method. Unfortunately, the only person around who could corroborate this is the Big Bad (who did, indeed, get the idea and the pigeons from Earth, but is unlikely to speak up for her).
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* Parodied in ''TheMonkees'' episode "Monkee See, Monkee Die". The boys are fogged in a haunted mansion and talk about using a carrier pigeon to get a message out, and one conveniently lands on the windowsill. The note on it's leg says "please don't attach notes to my leg, I am not a carrier pigeon."
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* Parodied in ''TheMonkees'' episode "Monkee See, Monkee Die". The boys are fogged in a haunted mansion and talk about using a carrier homing pigeon to get a message out, and one conveniently lands on the windowsill. The note on it's leg says "please don't attach notes to my leg, I am not a carrier pigeon."
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* One caller to [[GrandTheftAuto Chatterbox]] who is the head of an organization trying to get people to stop using phones, says that the group has had to resort to carrier pigeons, who keep disappearing. Later on a redneck calls in saying that pigeons make a good meal, and sometimes they "come with notes attached, just like a fortune cookie with wings."
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* One caller to [[GrandTheftAuto Chatterbox]] who is the head of an organization trying to get people to stop using phones, says that the group has had to resort to carrier homing pigeons, who keep disappearing. Later on a redneck calls in saying that pigeons make a good meal, and sometimes they "come with notes attached, just like a fortune cookie with wings."
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* Truth in Television, at least in South Africa. [[http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/1bc8b09e39b043928317dc769d4196e4/09-09-2009-12-23/Pigeon_beats_Telkom According to this article,]] a carrier pigeon beat the main internet provider in delivering 4 GB of data.
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* Truth in Television, at least in South Africa. [[http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/1bc8b09e39b043928317dc769d4196e4/09-09-2009-12-23/Pigeon_beats_Telkom According to this article,]] a carrier homing pigeon beat the main internet provider in delivering 4 GB of data.
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* The new BBC ''Series/RobinHood'', not normally noted for realism, got carrier pigeons pretty much right in the episode "Lardner's Ring". The fact that a given pigeon always flies to one destination is clearly explained (as is the fact that the destination is the pigeon's nest and mate, leading one of the characters to produce a soppy metaphor about True Love in a later episode), and the villains try to bring the pigeon down with arrows and a hunting hawk. (The natural hazards are somewhat underplayed, however: it's more or less implied that once the pigeon is out of range of the villains, it's home free.)
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* The new BBC ''Series/RobinHood'', not normally noted for realism, got carrier homing pigeons pretty much right in the episode "Lardner's Ring". The fact that a given pigeon always flies to one destination is clearly explained (as is the fact that the destination is the pigeon's nest and mate, leading one of the characters to produce a soppy metaphor about True Love in a later episode), and the villains try to bring the pigeon down with arrows and a hunting hawk. (The natural hazards are somewhat underplayed, however: it's more or less implied that once the pigeon is out of range of the villains, it's home free.)
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* The Internet Engineering Task Force often publishes [[TheParody spoof]] standards documents on April Fool's Day. One of these was "[[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers]]", ie, a document proposing a standardized way to send Internet traffic via carrier pigeon. In 2001, a group in Norway [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers#Real-life_implementation tried it out]] and determined that it had severe problems with latency and packet loss.
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* The Internet Engineering Task Force often publishes [[TheParody spoof]] standards documents on April Fool's Day. One of these was "[[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers]]", ie, a document proposing a standardized way to send Internet traffic via carrier homing pigeon. In 2001, a group in Norway [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers#Real-life_implementation tried it out]] and determined that it had severe problems with latency and packet loss.
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* Parodied in ''TheMonkees'' episode "Monkee See, Monkee Die". The boys are fogged in on an island and talk about using a carrier pigeon, and one conveniently lands on the windowsill. The note on it's leg says "lease don't attach notes to my leg, I am not a carrier pigeon."
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* Parodied in ''TheMonkees'' episode "Monkee See, Monkee Die". The boys are fogged in on an island a haunted mansion and talk about using a carrier pigeon, pigeon to get a message out, and one conveniently lands on the windowsill. The note on it's leg says "lease "please don't attach notes to my leg, I am not a carrier pigeon."
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* Understandable in ''GoldenSun: The Lost Age'', where the pigeon is being sent from the house of Piers's uncle to another character's home in Lemuria; there are so few people around, and Piers, [[spoiler: Lunpa]], and King Hydros all seem to be close enough that it's believable they'd have pigeon contacts for each other.
** There is no excuse in ''Dark Dawn'' for Isaac to be sending Kraden's own pigeon back to him, after Kraden sent it to Goma Plateau with a message for Isaac, especially since Kraden was traveling at the time. Presumably [[AWizardDidIt an Adept did it]].
** There is no excuse in ''Dark Dawn'' for Isaac to be sending Kraden's own pigeon back to him, after Kraden sent it to Goma Plateau with a message for Isaac, especially since Kraden was traveling at the time. Presumably [[AWizardDidIt an Adept did it]].
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* The {{Tintin}} adventure ''The Blue Lotus'' showed the villain Mitsuhirato receiving and sending messages by carrier pigeon.
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* In ''{{Strays}}'', [http://www.straysonline.com/comic/142.htm Feral gets a messenger hawk. Which can, apparently, track him down personally, since he's on the move.]]
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* {{Archipelago}} gives us "poot owls," bird-shaped magical messengers which presumably function much better than an ordinary pigeon but are capable of being intercepted or destroyed by enemy magic, as shown [[http://thesilvertophat.deviantart.com/art/Arch-7-pg-145-196978338 here]].
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This trope gets is name from the concept of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging_&_messengers Instant Messaging]] in computing. Considering that you don't even need a computer to work an InstantMessengerPigeon, it's no wonder the MedievalStasis is still in effect. For another example of animals not quite working that way, see AutomatonHorses.
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This trope gets is its name from the concept of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging_&_messengers Instant Messaging]] in computing. Considering that you don't even need a computer to work an InstantMessengerPigeon, it's no wonder the MedievalStasis is still in effect. For another example of animals not quite working that way, see AutomatonHorses.
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** TruthInTelevision: the Russians used this little trick in the CrimeanWar, training pigeons to associate men in red coats with food, then attaching a grenade to them and releasing them near British regiments.
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* Played straight in ''LastExile'', when a messenger pigeon finds Sophia ''aboard a friggin' airship''. Fair enough, pigeon post was occasionally used to deliver messages to ships in nearby waters and other mobile destinations, but [[LORd this troper]] would have appreciated it if the pigeon had been looking for the dovecote instead of, you know, ''Sophia''.
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* Played straight in ''LastExile'', when a messenger pigeon finds Sophia ''aboard a friggin' airship''. Fair enough, pigeon post was occasionally used to deliver messages to ships in nearby waters and other mobile destinations, but [[LORd this troper]] it would have been appreciated it if the pigeon had been were looking for the dovecote instead of, you know, ''Sophia''.
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** If the mole had the pigeons, could Conan have stolen the pigeon ''he'' used from the mole? In that case, Conan's pigeon would be homed in on the same place as the original one.
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* Well averted in Stephen Donaldson's novel,"The Mirror of her Dreams," wherein Terisa Morgan, the protagonist from Earth, desperately lectures her Fantasy World interrogator on the limitations of Earth carrier pigeons (one-way communication, not two-way); he's never heard of them and suspects her of using pigeons to pass messages, even though SHE alerted HIM to the method. Unfortunately, the only person around who could corroborate this is the Big Bad (who did, indeed, get the idea and the pigeons from Earth, but is unlikely to speak up for her.)
* [[RealmOfTheElderlings The Rain Wilds Chronicles]] has a framing story told via letters between two pigeon handlers. No, the one way trip thing does not come up somehow.
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* ''TalesOfTheQuestor'' averts it twice. The first time, the bird gets eaten by a hawk, the second time, a bird refuses to go out into cold weather.
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As useful as pigeon post proved during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, this method of communication possessed some considerable drawbacks: the homing pigeons' capacity to reliably deliver messages was entirely dependent upon their ability to locate their nest and mate. Thus, the pigeons had to first be transported from their nesting location to the senders' location, and once released, the bird would fly straight to its home and not budge thereafter; for mutual conversation, both parties needed either several pigeons nested in the other's location or some means of retrieving them after sending a message. Homing pigeons were also prone to getting lost or eaten by predators during particularly difficult journeys, which necessitated sending the same message with several pigeons, some or all of which could fall into the hands of a third party. Indeed, the Germans even trained falcons to do specifically this during the aforementioned siege.
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As useful as pigeon post proved during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, this method of communication possessed some considerable drawbacks: the homing pigeons' capacity to reliably deliver messages was entirely dependent upon their ability to locate their nest and mate. Thus, the pigeons had to first be transported from their nesting location to the senders' location, and once released, the bird would fly straight to its home and not budge thereafter; for mutual conversation, both parties needed either several pigeons nested in the other's location or some means of retrieving them after sending a message. (Though sometimes a pigeon could be trained to go back and forth between two locations, one counting as "home" and the other being a major food source) Homing pigeons were also prone to getting lost or eaten by predators during particularly difficult journeys, which necessitated sending the same message with several pigeons, some or all of which could fall into the hands of a third party. Indeed, the Germans even trained falcons to do specifically this during the aforementioned siege.
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* Spoofed in [[http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/messengerpigeonnew.png this]] ''Cyanide and Happiness'' comic.
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* Played with in ''{{Blackadder}} the Fourth''. Blackadder kills a messanger pigeon and eats it to remove any evidence of recieving suicidal orders, in order to have a plausable explanation for not following them. Unfortunately for him, General Melchett is personally familiar with the pigeon, and is able to recognise its remaining feather. It's also noted that shooting messanger pigeons is made a capitol offense due to the number of orders not getting through.
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* Played with in ''{{Blackadder}} the Fourth''. Goes Forth''. Blackadder kills a messanger messenger pigeon and eats it to remove any evidence of recieving receiving suicidal orders, in order to have a plausable plausible explanation for not following them. Unfortunately for him, General Melchett is personally familiar with the pigeon, and is able to recognise its remaining feather. It's also noted feather -- and the message it was carrying was an announcement that shooting messanger messenger pigeons is has been made a capitol capital offense due to the number of orders not getting through.
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* ''Genesis LPMud'', as a fantasy RPG, could get away with InstantMessengerPigeons. And then Instant Messenger Spiders were implemented for the Drow to send quick communications underground. And then the goblinoids got Instant Messenger Slave Children. Like the pigeons and spiders, the slave children could optionally be killed and eaten by the message recipient.
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* ''Genesis LPMud'', ''[=Genesis LPMud=]'', as a fantasy RPG, could get away with InstantMessengerPigeons.{{Instant Messenger Pigeon}}s. And then Instant Messenger Spiders were implemented for the Drow to send quick communications underground. And then the goblinoids got Instant Messenger Slave Children. Like the pigeons and spiders, the slave children could optionally be killed and eaten by the message recipient.
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* The [[RealmOfTheElderlings ''Rain Wilds Chronicles'']] has a framing story told via letters between two pigeon handlers. No, the one way trip thing does not come up somehow.
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** The Pointless Albatross can evidently be trained to carry messages between ''distant continents''.
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** Note that some thieves in ''The Colour Of Magic'' used a "homing rat" to send a message. It's unclear if this is a regular rat trained to track the recipient down by smell, a magic-enhanced rat as per above, or even some fantastical species of rodent, unique to the Disk, that shares pigeons' homing instincts.
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* Lampshaded in ''{{Blackadder}} the Fourth''. Blackadder is hungry and shoots a passing messenger pigeon under the assumption that if the army can kill a few thousand men a day surely they won't mind a dead pigeon. The pigeon is bearing the news that, because of communications problems, the shooting of messenger pigeons is now a court-martial offense. To make matters worse, this particular pigeon, called "Speckled Jim", is General Melchett's prized pet. Oh, and Melchett presides over the court-martial.
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* Lampshaded Played with in ''{{Blackadder}} the Fourth''. Blackadder is hungry and shoots kills a passing messenger messanger pigeon under and eats it to remove any evidence of recieving suicidal orders, in order to have a plausable explanation for not following them. Unfortunately for him, General Melchett is personally familiar with the assumption pigeon, and is able to recognise its remaining feather. It's also noted that if the army can kill a few thousand men a day surely they won't mind a dead pigeon. The pigeon is bearing the news that, because of communications problems, the shooting of messenger messanger pigeons is now made a court-martial offense. To make matters worse, this particular pigeon, called "Speckled Jim", is General Melchett's prized pet. Oh, and Melchett presides over capitol offense due to the court-martial.
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** He didn't shoot it because he was hungry, he shot it because he was pissed off (because they'd found a way to get
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