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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 28 > Why race pigeons? It’s for the birds

Why race pigeons? It’s for the birds

By Debby Abe / The Bulletin
September 28, 2009

TACOMA, Wash. — Sean Steen digs his hand into a plastic bowl of dried maize and yellow and green peas. He whistles and opens his palm, attracting a half dozen pigeons in his shed.

Another 50 or so coo from their perches.

Steen, a burly man, is as gentle as a butterfly with the birds.

“There’s my....

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