Homing Doves have been used for centuries in ceremonies and celebrations.  They add a joyful, magical moment to your wedding day, a moment you and your family and friends will love to remember.

These doves are descendants of Rock Doves and White Racing Homers (Pigeons).  Pigeons are Doves, but not all doves have the ability to return home.  Release of cage doves is inhumane as they are unable to survive after release.  
Only trained homing pigeons should be used for release purposes.

The birds must be properly trained to “home”.
First they are taught to recognize and come back inside their house, the loft.
A youngster may be flying circles and even flying out of sight for an hour,
but if he were taken 10 or 20 miles from home for his first flight,
chances are he would not find his way back to the loft.
The homing instinct is developed with human intervention.

Training involves daily, and sometimes twice daily “tosses”
beginning at about one mile intervals from the loft.
These trips extend out in all directions and then become farther out by a few miles each time, again in all directions, until the birds are returning quickly from each area. Besides training youngsters, the older birds must also be taken on tosses to keep their homing abilities “top notch”.

Our doves fly freely around their home.
They love to dip and dive and are quite a sight!
It is believed they navigate by the earth’s magnetism, the position of the sun,
sound waves bouncing off clouds, and their keen eyesight.
Doves cannot see in the dark.
Doves are released in daylight hours only.