{"id":124717,"date":"2021-07-08T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/worst-day-ever-in-pigeon-racing-history-as-5000-birds-vanish"},"modified":"2021-07-08T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:22:18","slug":"worst-day-ever-in-pigeon-racing-history-as-5000-birds-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/worst-day-ever-in-pigeon-racing-history-as-5000-birds-vanish","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Worst day ever\u2019 in pigeon racing history as 5,000 birds vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worst-day-ever-in-pigeon-racing-history-as-5000-birds-vanish.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bird handlers were devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>They flew the coop \u2014 and vanished into thin air.<\/p>\n<p>Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen one of the very worst ever racing days in our history,\u201d pigeon hobbyist Richard Sayers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.sayers.319\/posts\/1703222499875518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote in a Facebook post<\/a> chronicling the feathery fiasco, which occurred Saturday after 9000 racing birds took off from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on a journey to the northeast. And while the 170-mile round-trip flight should\u2019ve only taken three hours, over half the avian competitors were still unaccounted for as of last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird handlers were devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. They flew the coop \u2014 and vanished into thin air. Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen one of the very worst ever racing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}