National Birmingham Roller Club

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AUCTION SITE REPAIRED!

The Auction site is repaired and I can now add more items- bird and other cool stuff. Thanks for your patience. Please watch for new donations and items as I post them throughout the auction. Thank you and happy bidding! Thank you, Don M NBRC President/Fly Director/Auction Administrator
Happy 2018! We appreciate your patience as we repair our attacked website. Thank you

We continue to work on repairs to our website that suffered a attack last year. We hope to have everything working very soon. Thank you for your understanding during this time. Look forward to a great 2018 for the NBRC and it’s members.
NBRC Bulletin Deliveries

One of the most common complaints from NBRC members that seems to appear on internet roller forums, email groups, and chat rooms, has to do with a few members complaining that they have not received their Bulletin on time. There are a number of reasons for this. By providing the members with more information about…
Congratulations to 2016 National Champs, Mark Ritter and Ma Lee

Mark won his 2nd 20 bird national title in 3 years, an outstanding accomplishment. Ma won the 11 bird title with an exceptional high score. Both reside in region 4A which speaks volumes of compliment for the roller fraternity in that region. Thanks to “Iron Man” Ferrell Bussing for accepting the responsibility to judge the national…
Mangile’s Pigeon Pages

Mangile’s Pigeon Pages Pigeon Genetics Newsletter Issue #67 July 1973, pages 27-29. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE “DIRTY” COLORATION? by: Robert J. Mangile When one observes a flock of Homing Pigeons it is evident that some of the blue pigeons are of a much more “dirty” appearing coloration (not “smoky”) as compared to…
What is A Breed? by Cliff Ball

What is a breed? To put the question more precisely, what are the necessary conditions that enable us to say with conviction, “this group of animals constitutes a distinct breed?” A useful definition of “breed” is that a breed is a group of domesticated animals that are similar enough (usually by appearance, production, or origin)…