Pigeon Racing in Scotland

The governing body for members who race and show Racing Pigeons in Scotland.

This Website is for the members of the Scottish Homing Union and those with an interest in Pigeon Racing in Scotland. If there is any information that you feel is missing from this site that would be of value, please contact us with your suggestions.

Scottish Racing Pigeon/Sparrowhawk Predation Research Trial 2009

The Government Report on the Scottish Racing Pigeon/Sparrowhawk Predation Research Trial 2009 is now available. Click on the "News" Button to see both the Press Release from the Scottish Government and the SHU, as well as a link to the document itself and the SHU response.

Report a Stray Pigeon

If you have found a stray racing pigeon click here to find information on how to report it, and how to care for it while waiting for it to be collected.

2009 Balance Sheet

SHU members that have registered their email addresses with us can access the SHU 2009 AGM Agenda and Balance Sheet here.

"Click'n Clock"

"Click'n Clock" inserts for T3's now approved and available from Scottish Homing Union office.

£25.00 for set of twelve inserts. Order from:
SCOTTISH HOMING UNION
386a Stewarton Street
Wishaw
LANARKSHIRE
ML2 8DU.

Enclose cheque for £25 plus £1.50 p+p.

Tell us your loft number (if you have one), your name and the address where you want the order sent. We will normally send them back by return of post.

Can also be bought over the counter if you are in the area but telephone first to ensure we have them in stock.

Flights of Memory

"HISTORY OF THE 'DOO MEN' IS WINGING HOME TO ROOST
How do you record history when it is written only in brief, valiant flutter of a homing pigeon? Pigeon Racing was always as much about people as birds. For a centuary it was the warp and the weft of working class Scottish life... Thousands of miners, mill and factory workers were devoted to the gentle but intensly competitive art of bird keeping... Now, for the first time, the offical history of the sport has been recorded by Linda Brooks, the Secretary of the governing body, who saw the past slipping away and was determined to capture it..." Melanie Reid THE TIMES

"Historical facts and figures combined with pigeons are a recipe for success and none more so than in the one hundred year in which the SHU has provided service par excellence for its members. As one would expect, the history of the SHU is covered in depth and presented in a manner that makes for enjoyable reading. I feel the book has set the standard which others may follow. Exactly my kind of book and one which will appeal to all fanciers" Brian Newson "The Sport ar Heart"

"Without contradiction I class it a world first as to the best of my humble knowledge no-one anywhere has ever brough out such a book on the history of the Racing Pigeon Sport. A MUST for every serious fancier's book shelf. Here's to the next issue in 2107! This book leads where others will try and follow." "Slan Leibh!" (Gaelic - 'Health be with you) Jim George (Round 'O')

"Something in this book for everyone scribed by people who have come through the University of Life." Bob Kennedy (48years scribing with the RP)

"'Flights of Memory' is simply superb! Of the multitude of books relating to the sport I have devoured over the years this one above all, captures the essence, history and undauting spirit of both the Racing Pigeon and the Fancier." Graham McArthur, Author of 'Blood Flight'