Talk:Birmingham Roller

Website
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/1899420/sn/2053430134/name/n_a Sertme (talk) 23:27, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

A nice photograph of this breed would greatly improve this article.  Sting_au   Talk  23:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I enjoy answering questions relating to the Birmingham Roller pigeon, I have at the time of writing this 35 years of experience with this breed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the Birmingham Roller pigeon. www.rickmeerollers.com

Why do they roll
I have spent the better part of an hour trying to find some research on why Birmingham Rollers roll. I cannot find any research or any references to research. The best I can find is this forum (http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/f39/why-do-rollers-roll-the-truth-25768.html) where one poster says that nobody knows why. There is no research cited but several posters make observations that support a non-seizure cause. For example, rollers flying with racers won't roll. I raised Birmingham rollers for several years and saw no evidence whatsoever that they rolled for any other reason than that they wanted to. I often had birds return from long flights, tumble down about 20 feet and pull out just in time to make a perfect landing on the power wire near the loft. I also saw one tumble to avoid a kestrel. It worked.

The source cited in the article is not authoritative. The author of that article makes no claim to have any knowledge on the subject and he cites no source in his article. That article is about pigeon keepers shooting raptors. Why Birmingham Rollers roll is only mentioned in passing. I have added a verify credibility tag to it. Rsduhamel (talk) 04:09, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Rollers are used as an Alzheimer's disease model by neuroscientists. Private comms, no cite. Just throwing that out there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.2.186.10 (talk) 11:39, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Merger
I am making the recommendation that the newly created article, Birmingham rollers, be merged into this article. The new article does not seem to add info on the bird itself; rather, it evidently adds info on the cultural use of it (e.g. competition). Tyrol5   [Talk]  03:27, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Is this real
I simply have to make the challenge. Are "Birmingham Rollers" real, is this a real article?

It sounds a bit, well, mad, the idea of a selectively bred somersaulting pigeon from the midlands.

The sources aren't online sources, so can't be verified from here.

Just "throwing it out there" as it where... 90.197.122.212 (talk) 18:44, 7 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Definitely real. See this video. Cool birds. Rsduhamel (talk) 04:33, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Link is broken
The link to the national Birmingham Roller club site is broken in the sense of it leads to somewhere unrelated. Is the site gone, or has it moved?2406:5A00:A0E9:2F00:9899:A8C4:1C57:D2CC (talk) 23:00, 24 March 2020 (UTC)