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Carrier pigeons

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How big is the note that a carrier pigeon carries?
On game of thrones, It looks like some of the letters are pretty Long.
I am not talking about the spell magic pigeon.
Talking about writing out a note and fastener to a raven or homing pigeon pigeon.
I was thinking that a note about 60 words or so would be realistic. Any feedback from you guys would be greatly appreciated thank you.....
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Paper size was traditionally 1"x7".
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Though, keep in mind the Game of Thrones bird are ravens, which are bigger and have been bred for this for centuries. I would also not be surprised if Westeros didn't have a script that they used for messages, that was then rendered commonly and easily legible before being given to leaders.

Even on 1"*7", you can fit a lot of words if you write small enough and close enough.
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Re: Carrier pigeons

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As a test. You could manually figure out what you could produce on 1x7 paper.

As Mark says: You can fit a lot of words-and I would guess messages of this sort could also use a sort of shorthand to lengthen the content.

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The current pigeon service gives you 4 lines of 65 characters ;)

http://www.pigeongram.com/pgorder.php
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