Profile
In flight
Pigeons & Doves
Cher Ami
Columba livia domestica
- celestial
- 9001 km/h
- Historical individual
Carried the message that stopped the friendly fire on the Lost Battalion, October 1918, with a shattered breastbone and one leg gone. A small black-checked bird who finished the flight he was born for.
- Population
- singular historical individual
- Habitat
- human lofts and wartime messenger service
- Diet
- grain, seeds, grit
- Size
- 0.33 m
- Wingspan
- 0.66 m
