The first race of the season took place today between Cattolica (Rimini) and the cities of Veneto where the pigeons are based. Pigeons - it is known - have an extremely developed sense of direction; freed even hundreds of kilometers away they find their way home stimulated by the fact that they will be able to see their partner again.
Some birds know how to return to the Northeast even starting from Salento. Each breeder, on average, cages around forty runners; each pigeon has an electronic ring on its leg. Once he arrives he steps onto a platform that memorizes time. The distances covered are different for each pigeon-athlete, but divided by the time recorded they give the average speed of each. And it is by comparing the speeds that the rankings are drawn up. The distance is short, even for the pigeon there is half distance and half distance. The race was won by a pigeon from Porto Viro, on the Polesine delta.