Barcelona 2026 G M Preece & Son (UK) – International Sea Pigeons

We are incredibly proud to look in the loft and have 20 pigeons that completed the extraordinary challenge of racing Barcelona International 2026. Released in Barcelona underneath the mediterranean sun, conquering the towering Pyrenees, navigating the length of France before facing the final obstacle – the English Channel. 665 Miles or 1070 Kilometers to our loft in England. The weather conditions for Barcelona 2026 were high temperatures combined with North Easterly winds on day one through France and then the strong west side wind over the English Channel on day two. Blowing south westerly on day two from the north of France through to the top of the Netherlands. We are in a completely different race, it must not be forgotten.

Our pigeons potentially travelling through Andorra as many of the pigeons equipped with GPS trackers showed, before they returned to their lofts in the Netherland and France. Disproving the theory that the convoy go around the pyrenees before racing through France.

French Pigeon

Dutch Pigeons

Our first two pigeons are developing into real great International marathon racers, both repeating last years performances from Barcelona, both placing exactly the same as last year 6th & 7th National. It was no surprise when they arrived first for us. Here is a brief overview of the breeding of our six pigeons that arrived on day two. Full pedigrees of all eighteen pigeons in the UK prizes can be viewed on our website www.internationalseapigeons.com. The first was our 2022 hen ‘116’, she is granddaughter of “Jack Jones” through his 2017 SUPER COUPLE son and on the mothers side she is one of our best direct Bernd Morsnowski breeding hens. Our second was our 2021 cock ‘122’ his father is a direct Detlef Devers Cock, his mother is a direct Raymund Hermes hen. The 2018 SUPER COUPLE son of ‘JACK JONES’ is also the sire to our two year old hen – 8th National. A double grandson of ‘JACK JONES’ also being a son of ‘BLUEMOON’ is the sire to our two year old cock – 9th National. ‘THE 792’ is the sire to our three year old hen – 11th National and ‘JACK JONES’ is the grandfather to our four year old hen ‘124’ who arrived to take 15th National at 20:15pm on day two.

We managed to clock 18 of our pigeons in the UK prizes. The team is raced on widowhood but were allowed to sit a minimum 6 day eggs for Barcelona. Our first two year old cock – 9th National was not paired up and raced back to the yearling cocks section, where he doesn’t have a box – putting plenty of his loft mates and UK pigeons behind him, that would have had, in the human mind, far more motivation than him.