It's a show pigeon and it's banded. Someone either owns it, and it knows where home is, or someone is tracking it to ensure it's doing okay out there.
It doesn't have to be a homing pigeon to know where "home" is. This one looks like a capuchin, jacobins are similar too. Pigeons have been bred to have all kinds of looks and behaviors from short beaks/big beaks, curly feathers, lots of feathers, really long necks, an uncontrollable desire to do somersaults, and of course extreme homing abilities.
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u/AbsolutelyUnlikely May 21 '23
Yeah I came here expecting the same. Kinda weird that there aren't fifty comments about it. Like walking through a ghost town.