There's a new group of 800 racing pigeons up for auction after a record-breaking sale in November. They include descendants of previous record-breaker Golden Prince, and they all come from breeder ...

In all his years watching the pigeons who take up residency is in his hometown of Worcester, Bill Hughes says there’s one thing he’s never seen: a chick. And for decades he’s asked anyone willing to ...

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, ...

I headed out to Wells Harbor this weekend to see what birds were there: Who was back from the south, who was migrating through and whether anyone was changing plumage as their mating season ramps up?

If there’s one bird with a bad rap, it just may be a city pigeon. Liz Challoner is one of the founding members of one of the more unusual groups in the country, a full-time pigeon rescue called Great ...

In Antonin Niclass’s short film “Do Not Feed the Pigeons,” a flock becomes a source of unexpected wonder for a group of weary travellers.

In 1907, just a few years after the Wright brothers lifted off in Kitty Hawk, and while human flight was still being measured in metres and minutes, Dr. Julius Neubronner, a German apothecary, ...

People love to hate on pigeons for the way they foul up parked cars or flock to food scraps on the sidewalk. But with more than 300 species of wild pigeon found on Earth—many of them stunning—it’s ...

Pennsylvania is the only state where live pigeons are regularly used for target shooting, animal rights advocates say, and legislation that passed a state House committee Monday could put an end to ...

Start them young. Give them a good home so they want to come back. By Malia Wollan “Don’t get too attached,” says Joseph LaQuiere, a 16-year-old youth ambassador for the American Racing Pigeon Union.

Not even Alfred Hitchcock could have concocted the avian idea — carrier pigeons in bras. Or, at the very least, carrier pigeons in vests made by a brassiere company. In December 1944, undergarment ...

"It's very strange to just have a ball of iron sitting in there." This is an Inside Science story. Many animals can sense things that humans cannot -- the humble pigeon, for instance, is capable of ...