Homing Pigeons in New Zealand Communications
The early use of pigeons in New Zealand as a means of communication
This article on the early use of pigeons as a means of communication was written by the late Desmond Hurley, a renowned stamp collector from Wellington. Desmond's interest in the subject came from his original research into the Great Barrier Pigeon-gram Service and their stamps but he quickly realized that pigeons were more widely used in communication prior to the introduction of the telegraph.