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.

Ten-year-old Jacob Sewall had seen pigeons only in books before a Maine neighbor named Scott Landry introduced the lad to breeding and racing the oft-misunderstood birds. Every day after school and by ...

GABRIELLE: DEPUTIES SAY MORE THAN 100 PIGEONS THAT ARE USED FOR RACING WERE STOLEN FROM A GREENVILLE COUNTY HOME LAST WEEKEND. THEIR OWNER SAYS THE BIRDS ARE VALUABLE. AND HE IS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT HAS ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WESTBROOK — Raising and racing homing pigeons can be a fun labor of love, ...

KEWASKUM, Wis. – From St. Mark’s plaza in Venice, Italy, to rooftop lofts in Matanzas, Cuba, to New York City’s Central Park to countryside farm silos to interstate overpasses, pigeons are an ...

Mike Tyson slips off his black leather jacket and takes a white homing pigeon from Luthor Nelson’s hands. The former boxer — and pigeon fancier — easily tosses it up with one hand. Then he helps open ...

It sounds like something the Flintstones would do: Send a super-fast message, tie it to a bird’s leg and let go. Amazingly, this works — as long as the bird is a trained homing pigeon. And it’s not ...