Millions of people went about their business as usual last Saturday, utterly oblivious to the fact that it was "one of the very worst ever" days in pigeon racing history. "At present people are very ...

LONDON — Animal rights activists say they have “rescued” three racing pigeons that had been kept at King Charles’s royal estate — and are calling on the monarch to cut ties with the “archaic and often ...

Hundreds of pigeons emerge from a slim opening in a backyard shed outfitted into a coop, their heads bobbing as their owner, Wilberto Aponte out, shoos them out, gruffly urging them to fly. In a ...

The racing pigeons went missing last month in Cambridgeshire, England, and watchers were stumped. Race officials think they might have been confused by wind or solar activity. Yeah - winged rats, sky ...

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 ...

More than 1,000 pigeons from across the West of England are being prepared to play their part in the VE Day celebrations. The Paulton Homing Society in Somerset is among many groups across the UK ...

Alabama's Monroe County Animal Shelter is working to reunite the 4-year-old pigeon, named Bob, with his owner back home in the U.K. A homing pigeon named Bob ended up thousands of miles off the mark ...

New Kim is worth her weight in gold and then some — actually much, much more. A wealthy Chinese pigeon racing fan put down a record price of 1.6 million euros ($1.9 million) for the Belgian-bred bird, ...

Jim Effting's trained his pigeons to find their way home after being released 600 miles away. No one really knows how they do it. "Scientists have studied them forever," Jim said. "They've tried to ...

A doping scandal rocked the hallowed sport of pigeon racing this week after six birds tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Yes, everything in that sentence was true. Don't think ...

New Kim, a Belgian racing bird, set an auction record after a bidding war between two Chinese buyers. By Isabella Kwai In the pigeon racing world, breeding brings big bucks — but never before as much ...