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Tipplering in Israel
Tipplering in Israel started with British Mandate United Kingdom got from the League of
the Nations, immediately after WW I back to 1918, or fail of the Ottoman Empire. SinceBrits were here on the temporarely posts for a period of 4 yrs. or more, just as in many
other teritories under their controll, they took with them birds, dogs and horses as well.
But in towns where they lived it wasn't possible to breed them and therefore they were
kept and breeded in their police stations, who were built all over Israel and all with very
much same layout. They had there mostly two kinds of pigeons, English Flying Tipplers
and racing pigeons of British type with longer peak and higher body than today's racing
pigeons. When they left in 1948, when Israel established the State after famous vote in
the UN, some of the birds were taken back with them and some were left or released.
When I came to Israel for the fist time back to 1982 I've been settled in Kibutz Gesher,
which is located between Beit Shan and Tiberias on the Sea of Gallile, and it took me
with surprise when I found in their small ZOO original Tipplers!!! I spoked with Mrs.
Noga who were at that time in charge with the ZOO and she told me that they got
them from some old fellow who is not from kibutz. I asked for his address and one day
went to pay him a visit to Afula, place near by. I recognized place from quite far away
because of the pigeons who flew all around and landed and got off.
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We spoke for something like a few hours and I understood that guy has been born
there at the time of the Ottoman Empire and he remember when English came in 1918
as well as when they left in 1948. I don't recall his name any longer but I do remember
that he lived just outside of Afula on the road to Nazareth. He said that there are some
of the Tipplers who are pure, but most of them are mixed, because not very much
people know about them and neither kept them for training. He also told me that if I
wish to get some of those birds I have to go and look all around places wherever there
are their ex-police stations built because when birds were released they didn't settled
far away from there. He also told me that most of these birds were Macclesfield's and
Manchester types, and very few of Sheffield type, because Sheffields strain were mostly
self or barred and terefore hard to fly long hrs. Under Middle Eastern sun. They were
also easy target for hawks as dark spots on the mostly dominantly blue sky! He quoted
that they flew between 12-14 hrs. and very high most of the times. And some of them
were left to fly during the night as they returned in the early morning hours as points in
the sky. No special feeding or training were implemented just ordinary food from here
as barley, wheat, corn and dura which will be equivalent to the Australian pees. Our
meeting finished and I went around places where he told me as British ex-police
stations. First one was in the centre of Afula but he told me that he already made
multiple inqueries and took whatever good and pure he saw and found! So my next trip
was Kibutz Gesher from where I started my inquiry and where as a matter of fact was
settled one of many ex-British Police stations just near the border. I made many
inquieries and the best I could do were few birds I found in two fanciers who lived inBeit Shean, place on its way to Jerusalem via Alon Road. I took them back to my
Kibutz Gesher and made some great pairings out of them. Third place I found was ex-
British Police station on the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on the left side in the
place called Abu-Josh, an Arab village. I went there and spoke with few people who
were pigeon fanciers which pinpointed to some other whom they thought that those
kept birds as I've been looking for i.e. according to my dessription. After paying visit to
some more villages I have been found few more birds of which I wasn't sure 100 % of
they were pure, but they looked like very much as pure, although they were in pairs
with some other pigeons not of Tippler origin. I bought them from the fanciers whonever trained them but were telling me that birds are flying alone whenever they are
released very high and for quite some time. Most of these fellows kept Persian highfliers
and Oriental Tumblers and were not interested in Tipplers. I completed something like
10 pairs in Kibutz Gesher with gratefull help of my late friend Yakov Caspy " and time
came when I had to return back to continue my studies in ex-Yugoslavia.
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I asked if I can take with me few pairs and they let me take 3 pairs. I picked up the
best of course. But since I have been travelling by train from Greece to ex-Yugoslavia,
since there was no direct flight at that time, Macedonian custom officier saw huge
paper box in the upper corner above me and asked what is in and when I said birds he
called for a Vet and they asked me to kill them on the spot since I didn't have anymedical permissions for import!!!It was like as someone stubbed knife in my heart and I
went in the corner and pulled off their heads!!!I was lucky to have another three hidden
in my sleaves of my jacket since I was taught that you shou ld never carry all eggs
only in one basket!!!Three birds that were left were two hens, one print grizzled and
another like more red mottled and one cock who had green almond colour. They gave
me very good offspring back in my hometown Osijek for quite some time, actualy
exactly until summer of 1986 when I immigrated to Israel and took with me all my
birds! So destiny wanted that offsprings as well as the original birds reached again the
Holly Land. At that time I was renting small apartment in Ramat Gan where I madehuge cage on the roof above my apartment and from where I flew my birds. Very same
year my best Israeli friend Maty Birnbaum from Eilat on the Red Sea went to my
hometown and asked me to find him good Tippler's kit for a sale. I asked some chaps
and found for him stolen Tippler's kit of Lovatt origin from some of the best Tippler's
fanciers at that time, whose name need not to be mentioned since he's still alive
LOL!!He bought all 10 stolen pairs and from him people all around Israel got birds and
especially in Kibutz Yotveta near Eilat where they hardly could stop them from entering
into the night, where they were flying all night under the moonlight and seen early in
the morning as small dots in the sky. Offsprings of my birds of Zemun's origin, or more
exactly who bought from Matic Andrija back in 1976 and mixed with Israeli found
Tipplers from 1982 until 1986 as I said, were given to Kibutzim Beit Ha-Shita to man
called Mukie at that time in the charge of Kibutz ZOO and other ZOO man Yossi Siwan
in Kibutz Beit-Alfa under the mountain Gilboa where in the ancient time King David
beated huge Goliath!!!They flew excellent and even today wherever you go around
Israel and start to talk about Tipplers fanciers will tell you about Maty's and my ex-
birds. Later on I moved in Herzliya where I had troubles with Municipality because of
my pigeons and therefore had to move them to my friend Hayim Miaznek who had
many pigeons in Ramat Gan. From there they went to moshav Kfar Truman near the
Tel Aviv's airport and there I have had major flood after huge floods back in 1991. One
third of my birds died as sewage stucked and they simple couldn't get out of deep
water. I don't remember myself more devastating that at that time. I took the next day
all my birds and moved them to my friend Ory Rosner in Kibutz Ein Gedi near the Dead
Sea. During all this Odyseyas of my birds Maty Birnbaum from Eilat slowly gave up his
birds, in favour to the parrots, to all over Israel without taking any tracking records.
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Year after I bought apartment in Yaffo back in 1991 I took my birds back from Kibutz
Ein Gedi from Ory and brought them to my roof where two huge cages were been built
for them. But even there I have had huge misfortune since one night when birds were
separated during the winter season thieves came in the early morning hours and stole
all my hens, since they were in the right side of the huge cage. That finished me even
more. But once Tipplerman always Tipplerman, and I soon went back to people who
had my and Maty's offsprings and put back again whole fleet together. Started to fly
them again and after I heard about good impact of Almonds used in the Far East and
hoter Middle-Eastern countries so I started to give them syrup of Almonds mixed with
water two-three hours before each flight. Everything else normaly just as everybody
train them anywhere else in the world. In the year 1997 I got project in New Zealand
and I had to leave for one year so I left all my birds to friend of mine who is car
mechanic and living in moshav near Kfar Truman where I lived some time before. Few
months before I returned he informed me that all three cages of birds were stolen after
his german sheperd was shot with sleeping injection! One cage of birds were mine,
another his and the third one were parrots he shard with his brother. That definitely
brake me down and I said to myself that I'll never ever breed Tipplers. But as I said
before once Tipplerman always Tipplerman I went to my hometown and got some nice
birds from my late friend Sljivac Tomislav . I smuggled them into Israel and started"
all over again. This time in smaller cages and much less than before but hey I was back
on the track. And right now Im without birds here because of the Municipality problem
again but soon will solve that problem and get back all my birds from three majorplaces they are kept such as Serbia, Czech Republic and Croatia. I hope that you
enjoyed this story! Oh yes the best official time I ever got was 17 hrs. flying under the
NTU rules for KCHT Czech Tipplers Club on April 23 rd, 2006 (honorable system) with
three senior brothers.
2011- Copyright by David Strossmayer
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