The pigeons could find their way home from hundreds of miles away, flying at 50 miles per hour. Van Gaver's birds, which he entered in national races, were among the best in Belgium. For a century, ...

BEIJING — If you ever try to cheat in a pigeon race, just remember this: Bullet trains travel much faster than homing pigeons. Two men who tried to rig a bird race in China — and claim $160,000 in ...

The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is the oldest continuously running livestock show and rodeo in the United States. Each year the 130-year-old event draws more than 1 million attendees and is home ...

Dark Horse Loft near New Richmond is home to a unique mother and son pigeon racing team. Dark Horse Loft near New Richmond is home to a unique mother and son pigeon racing team who compete against ...

Scientists have long been baffled by pigeons’ ability to find their way back home from hundreds of miles away. And despite decades of study and research that have shown what the birds do, they still ...

DENVER • It’s not yet time to release the pigeons. “I’ve got a little problem,” says Eduardo Gonzalez, pointing to the Cooper’s hawk circling above his backyard loft. The loft is home to Gonzalez’s ...

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 ...

When Marco Palomares was a teen in his hometown of Morelia, Michoacan, a friend gave him two racing pigeons. His heart skipped a beat. The teen's delight was short-lived because his father made him ...

It is a brutal 600-kilometre gauntlet during which competitors face searing heat, wild seas, vicious predators, and the threat of kidnapping. This is the MacArthur competition -- the Philippines' ...

Early Childhood Council Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick will hold its fifth annual Flight For Funds Virtual Pigeon Race on Sunday, Oct. 6. The racing pigeons will begin their flight at 7 a.m. in Gothenburg ...

The U.S. attacked Venezuela and deposed its long-serving autocratic President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, in Washington's most direct intervention in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama.

A wayward pigeon was rescued from the side of the road by a North Andover Police officer on Monday. Officials say “Petey” the racing pigeon from Warren, Rhode Island got lost while competing in a race ...