A Midlands woman who has been racing pigeons for 30 years says she ‘didn’t like them at all’ - as she shares how these ...

When it comes to competitive racing, the body type of racing pigeons plays a pivotal role in influencing their performance. Factors such as physical structure and environmental conditions ...

The Andrews Animal Shelter has a flying mystery on its hands. A tame and tagged pigeon was found in town this week and animal ...

Kolkata's once-thriving pigeon racing culture has seen a significant decline, with only a few enthusiasts remaining from a ...

People would raise homing pigeons to race them—they ... ‘We’ll carry on raising our racing pigeons, but we can turn them into RAF racing pigeons.’ There was a military purpose to them ...

And right up until the invention of the telegraph, in 1844, homing pigeons remained the fastest way to send messages across long distances. The birds can fly for 1,000 miles in one race and can ...

While the fancy pigeons have had the ‘homing instinct’ bred out of them, there is the Buffalo Racing Pigeon Club that is a 300-400 mile race competition. Racers will release the birds in Erie ...

This was the moment a gunman was seen seemingly take potshots at pigeons from a balcony - forcing a nearby school to go into lockdown. A video posted on social media appeared to show a man wearing ...

Amy Hamilton estimates that hundreds of pigeons have been rescued at the site An animal welfare campaigner has accused a railway company of causing "unnecessary suffering" to pigeons by allowing ...

Homing pigeons – a type of domestic pigeon ... of over 1,000 miles have been recorded by birds in competitive pigeon racing (when specially bred and trained birds are released from specific ...