AU Bird Hall of Fame

This is an individual bird award for outstanding performance in youngbird, yearling and oldbird seasons.

Old Bird Hall of Fame Awards
1. This is an individual bird award for performances occurring during two annual oldbird race series. One race series must be from the current year; the second series may be from any prior single year and may include the birds’ yearling oldbird series. (Ex. Current year – 2008 series + 2007 series, or 2006 series…)
Note: Only race data submitted via the AU National Database beginning with the 2005 oldbird series will be utilized for Oldbird Hall of Fame.

2. AU Hall of Fame Oldbird awards shall be given in the following distance categories:

MIDDLE DISTANCE: The pigeon must clock in the top 20% in eight (8) different races (different dates), during a two year period. Each race must be greater than 75 and less than 350 airline miles. The mileages of the eight races must total 1600 miles or more. The clockings in the eight races must average in the top 10% or better.

LONG DISTANCE: The pigeon must clock in the top 20% in six (6) different races (different dates), during a two year period. Each race must be 350 airline miles or more. The mileages of the three races must total 2550 miles or more. The clockings in the six races must average in the top 10% or better.

MARATHON: The pigeon must clock in the top 20% in four (4) different races (different dates), during a two year period. Each race must be 450 airline miles or more. The mileage of the four races must total 2100 miles or more. The clockings in the four races must average in the top 10% or better.

MARATHON TRIPLE CROWN: The pigeon must clock in the top 20% in six (6) different races, during a two year period. Each race must be 450 airline miles or more. The mileage of the (6) six races must total 3000 miles or more. The clockings in the six races must average in the top 10% or better.

ALL DISTANCE: The pigeon must clock in the top 20% in eight (8) or more different races (different dates) during a two year period. At least two races must be less than 250 airline miles and at least two races must be more than 450 airline miles. The mileage of the races must total 2400 miles or more. The clockings in the eight races must average in the top 10% or better.


YOUNG BIRD: The pigeon must clock in the top 20% in five (5) different young bird races (different dates). At least one of the races must be 250 miles or more. The mileage of the races must total 1000 miles or more. The clockings in the five (5) races must average in the top 10% or better.

YEARLING: The pigeon must clock in the top 20% of eight (8) races during its Youngbird and its Yearling seasons. At least one race must be 400 miles or more. The total mileage of the races must total 1800 airline miles or more. A minimum of three races are required from each series. The clockings in the eight races must average in the top 10% or better.

3. The score for each race performance is calculated by dividing the bird’s position in a race by the total number of birds entered in the race and converting the result into a percentage. These percentages are then averaged over the number of optimized, required, qualifying races to determine the final score to be used for ranking the performances. Birds are then ranked in the order of increasing scores.
4. Races at all organizational levels of competition, including specials, are eligible for AU Hall of Fame consideration. The NDB program will automatically select the bird’s best score from among the various competition levels for each day’s race. The qualifying races used that meet the distance requirements will be selected from the entire two-year performance record in order to optimize the bird’s final score.
5. The National Data Base web site shall show four national listings based on competition levels, one overall listing and three segregated according to the number of birds in competition. In addition listings by individual AU zone and state shall be provided on the National Data Base web site. The bird number categories are 1) Overall, 2) number of birds per race is 100 birds or less, 3) & 4) actual cutoffs to be determined and chosen so the number of total lofts in each of categories 3 & 4 is equal.
6. Qualifying birds must be banded in accordance with AU Race Rule 7.09.

Upload deadline to the NDB is February 1st for Young Birds and August 1st for Old Birds.