STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Homing pigeons -- those birds with the remarkable ability to find their way home over vast distances -- have fascinated city-dwellers for over half-a-century. Decades ago, the ...

Whether he was training pigeons to serve in World War II or sorting chicks, riding a bucking bronco or calling for bids at a livestock auction, Ed Schmidt's long life has often revolved around animals ...

It sounds like something the Flintstones would do: Send a super-fast message, tie it to a bird’s leg and let go. Amazingly, this works — as long as the bird is a trained homing pigeon. And it’s not ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - These birds are not homeless. They are not at all like those downtown pigeons that run amok and leave their mark on your car windshield. These pigeons are civilized and well ...

BRISTOL — On a warm breezy May afternoon, Cass Witkowski, lifted an 8-day-old homing pigeon from its nest in Shamrock Loft — the name he has given his backyard coop behind his Bristol home — and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Flying down U.S. 85 in his Dodge Magnum station wagon Saturday, Clint Vider carried a trunk full of birds, Bugzy the miniature schnauzer napping in a dog bed ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. — At 6:35 a.m., under a blood-red sky, 1,075 pigeons sip water in a ventilated trailer in the Wal-Mart parking lot before the Greater Boston Homing Pigeon Concourse race to Boston. They ...

Agaton Strom’s images of pigeons possess a classic quality about them, recalling the days of Marlon Brando’s On the Waterfront, when pigeon rearing was the working man’s sport. We asked the award ...