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bird fancier him self, the Hawk was rather alarmed recently when he learnt what was happening to some of his feathered friends.
It's being claimed that thanks to the everincreasing use of the mobile phone, the natural internal biological compass of the homing pigeon is suffering interference from radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts. It is accepted that pigeons rely on the Earth's magnetic field for compass orientation. Jim Power, secretary of the New Ross and District Pigeon Club in the Irish Republic, has noticed that the problem of lost birds has increased with the growing popular* of mobile phones and satellite television.
The Hawk is suitably outraged. It is easy to forget in these days of high technology what part the humble messenger pigeon played in communications in times past.