Racing pigeons are released at dawn from a starting point 100 to 550 miles from home so they can see visual cues and arrive at their coops before dark. But they apparently rely heavily on their ...

Researchers have decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon, unlocking secrets about pigeons' Middle East origins, feral pigeons' kinship with escaped racing birds, and how mutations give ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Hans Foell spends race days pacing his Concord, Calif., backyard, squinting up Kirker Pass as he waits for one of his prizewinning birds to come into view. Foell’s brother gave ...

Tommy Erskine is a flier without wings, a racer who sits and waits, an enthusiast for an ancient sport that is fading in Baltimore. He breeds racing pigeons. The fact that they always come home, and ...

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 ...

Here is some historic and biological information about the species gleaned from Project Pigeon Watch, the work of the Cornell (University) Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York Million of ...

Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon, unlocking secrets about pigeons' Middle East origins, feral pigeons' kinship with escaped racing birds and how mutations give pigeons ...

Hans Foell spends race days pacing his Concord backyard, squinting up Kirker Pass as he waits for one of his prizewinning birds to come into view. Foell’s brother gave him his first homing pigeon when ...

So what do you do when a pigeon lands in your life? Especially a racing pigeon that, as far as I can tell from multiple leg tags, was more than 300 miles from his Missouri home when he decided to make ...