The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...

Ellsworth Kistler of Coopersburg R.3 is for the birds. His family and friends think so and Kistler himself admits it. But much as he loves his high-flying prize pigeons, he won’t fly himself. “I’m ...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – Some people take up woodworking in their free time. Others get into gardening. The six members of the Glynn County-based South Georgia Flyers race pigeons. “It’s a hobby, like some ...

Roy Davies has been racing pigeons for 40 years, even beating the Queen A pigeon fancier fears he could be forced to destroy some of his racing birds after planners objected to the location of their ...

Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped. An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee Monday.

Strasbourg, the picturesque city in north-east France, is testing out a pigeon birth control technique that officials estimate will humanely halve the number of pigeons in just three years. If you are ...

The sport of pigeon racing might have first taken off in Western Europe with the Romans in 220AD, however it didn't find a perch in China until the 1960s in Shanghai. Back then, the main breeds of ...