Each weekend, Bill Desmarais ships his birds off on a truck and somehow, they find their way home. In his backyard in Massachusetts recently, he welcomed home birds from a race that started 250 miles ...

An animal-rights group says it has bought and rehomed three pigeons from the King's estate in Sandringham, arguing that pigeon racing is cruel. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has ...

They flew the coop — and vanished into thin air. Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5,000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. “We’ve seen one of the very ...

Before the Wi-fi and the Internet, the telephone and the telegraph, the original instant messaging services of society were homing pigeons. After becoming the first domesticated birds, for an ...

A barrage of flapping wings greets visitors to Rafael “Pep” Bachier’s bird coop, an RV-size space tucked beside his bright yellow Roxbury auto repair shop. Close to 40 rainbow-colored cubbies, one for ...

Ron Actis paced his back yard and scanned the skies above Kirker Pass for his pigeons racing home from Nevada. It was a 180-mile, four-hour-plus romp for the birds. It was an exhilarating and ...

A racing pigeon was bought at auction last Sunday – and the price tag was nothing to coo at. New Kim, a Belgian-bred racing pigeon, was sold for $1.9 million to a wealthy Chinese bidder under the ...

Joe Green spends many hours on this roof in Gravesend. It's where he breeds and trains racing pigeons. "You have here what you call sprinters, middle distance and long distance,” says Joe Green ...

The role of pigeons during World War Two has been remembered as owners gathered for the start of a pigeon club's racing season. The birds carried vital messages about troop positions and early news of ...

Ngô Hồng Vân has been raising racing pigeons for over 10 years. Many in HCM City partake in this sport as a hobby. VNS Photo Việt Dũng Heads turn upwards around the same time every afternoon around ...

Belgian-bred pigeons are known as the best in the world of pigeon racing, but even seasoned breeding families were left stunned after an anonymous Chinese buyer swooped in to buy a female pigeon named ...