we'll be answering you think a marathon sounds hard, find a 200-mile race in a thunderstorm. then you can understand a chicago racing pigeon was blown off course. he was racing from richfield illinois to oak lawn.
he ended up in indiana. we have more on pidgeons and number 7's journey home in this original report. would you never know by looking at this oak lawn backyard that there are fierce competitors just feet away. that's why i had the
flowers, and i had the pigeon. highly sophisticated homing pidgeons that he trains, racing pink objects are apparently a thing. pidgeons are tagged at birth and trained to fly at long distances and they race them. they see which ones make it
home the fastest. how do they know how to make it home. it comes from picking up the magnetic poles of the earth like a compass. and the birds always come home except this time, and they founded a spotted bird on his
home. he said the bird was soaking wet and he was laying on the grass. when he picked him up he gave it water and he give him some bird seed. the family in particular, nursed pigeon number 7 back to
health. number 7 will fly back home. she attached a message to the tag and september him on his way back home. he was supposed to arrive around 9:00 a.m. but andy says he's not worried because as the message that she
attached to his leg, home is always where you can return no matter how long you've been he'll make it home and i know he will. a live look now for pigeon number 7's coup in oak lawn. this is a pigeon this the area, he can't get close enough to
see if it is, in fact, pigeon number 7 and there's the coop right behind it and behind it is where that pigeon is. we'll keep you posted, fingers are crossed, but we're hoping this is, in fact, pigeon number 7 in oak lawn. racing pidgeons are racing
pidgeons than what you see on the pidgeons on the city lawns, they give vaccinations and vitamins and they are bathed by hands. i have a respect for pidgeons and we're hoping it's pigeon number 7. if it's not, is it possible
that he was injured and that's how it ended up in indiana. he thinks there's a possibility it was either injured by a power line or he had an interaction with a hawk. there's chance though that he's still alive out there even if he was injured, but i think the
bigger thing is pidgeons don't normally fly in the afternoon, they usually fly in the morning. so if this pigeon was coming back home again, they were flying in those hot temperatures this afternoon, there's a chance it stopped for
water and particular a rest. that's why if this is percentage on number 7. 7 was nursed back to health, it was so far off coast could it be in pittsburgh right now. probably not because their pole will always be back this way.
so, you know, here's hoping we'll have an update. we hope we'll have an update -- i want to see a close up shot again. what i should mention, we got this story because an employee, producer tracy
maloney, the pigeon landed in her brother's backyard. she's the one who will be here in ten seconds, you guys have to move on. but, we want to talk about it.