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At the beginning of Autumn in 2020, a large competition of pigeon racing event held in Changchun, China.

09/10/2020

At the beginning of Autumn, a large competition of pigeon racing event held in Changchun, China. The full distancing was 300 kilometres and flew from the west to the east. The wind direction was from the south to the north of the side wind. The participating lofts were 76, the total was 3319 pigeons. The returned amounts were 76 lofts and 3024 pigeons. The return rate was 91.11% high. All of the returned pigeons will go to the next round. And every single pigeon was wearing the JIXIANGEL GPS ring device, which also provided hugely and trusted data to the fancier as proof in this competition.

Due to a large number of participating pigeons, there were also many interesting routes. On the whole tracking routes map, you can see that many pigeons flew lost direction. They did not only get the bottom of the ranking but also fly 360 kilometres more than the 1st place. The flight time was 4 times more, too. I believed they had a good sleeping that night.

The loft No.113 had the best result in this race. Not only they had top 3 pigeons, but also others pigeons almost arrived at the same time. And the 6th to last -723 was a special one. The total flight distancing of 723 was flying much more than the top 3. Even the highest speed was 2,100 m/M which was better than others. So we were laughing that he already planned to hang around. Besides, we also see that the 2nd place and 3rd place performanced were almost the same. Both of them had the better-averaged speed and highest speed than the 1st place. But the 1st place still has an advantage in distance navigation, so I think this is why he arrived earlier. Although there is a pigeon clock in every race, there are many pigeons arrived at the same time usually. It is hard for fancier to recognize the difference between all of these. Wearing a GPS ring, you can not only read the records of the flight routes, speed and time but also it could be a tool to increase the fairness and discussion of the race.

When we were reorganizing tracking data, we found another interesting thing. The last two pigeons (ring number 356 and 859). They had very good flew routes, straight and short distancing. And also very similar to the first place 714. We just have no idea where they were going during the racing period. They left the way, hung around a few hours later, returned to the race and completed it.

The pigeon fanciers were joking about they will put a pinhole camera with the pigeon to follow where they go. Or maybe they need some psychological quality training before joining in a race.