Pigeons Find a Purpose in Life

Finally, pigeons are going to be good for something other getting in the way and crapping all over anything that doesn't move.

A flock of pigeons fitted with mobile phone backpacks is to be used to monitor air pollution, New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday.

The 20 pigeons will be released into the skies over San Jose, California, in August.
Each bird will carry a GPS satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic mobile phone.

But a word of warning to my fellow bloggers...there's going to be some new competition on the block...

Text messages on air quality will be beamed back in real time to a special pigeon "blog", a journal accessible on the Internet.

SQUAWK!

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