When you think of pigeons, you might conjure up images of grey speckled birds pecking bits of food off city streets. But ...

Leaving a bird keeper deeply disheartened, thieves decamped with 35 homing pigeons, including a prized champion flier, from the house of a hobby pigeoneer in the state capital.

And there are over 800 breeds of pigeon ... And right up until the invention of the telegraph, in 1844, homing pigeons remained the fastest way to send messages across long distances.

What happens to the homing pigeons that lose their way home? It sounds like the premise to a joke - like the road-crossing chicken but in the air. The truth is, however, some pigeons cannot find ...

along with top-tier judges from as far away as Germany and the U.K. There are hundreds of breeds of pigeons but they are grouped into three types: racing pigeons, homing pigeons and show pigeons. " ...

For heavens sake stop it.” Cher Ami was a male homing pigeon born in the spring of 1918 in Norfolk, England. He was one of 600 English-bred messenger pigeons donated to America’s Signal Pigeon ...