Pigeon racing began in Belgium in the 1800s and is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons who then return to their loft, or home, over a measured distance.

Pigeons are an increasing nuisance in Berlin, leaving their droppings everywhere. Efforts to manage their numbers include installing pigeon lofts.

These days, French military pigeon number 193-529 is no longer needed to carry tiny messages during war-time communication blackouts.

But the racing bird serves as a reminder of the brave service of its predecessors in World Wars I and II, and the 1870 siege of Paris. Inside Europe's last military pigeon loft, Sergeant Sylvain ...

Mumbai: Noting that rampant feeding of pigeons poses health risks and breach the right to life, the state human rights commission took up suo motu haz.

In the centre of the Design Museum’s latest exhibition, More than Human, is a series of architectural models, colourful and playful in form and material, arranged in a loose cityscape. The structures ...

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 ...

Flight performance, energetics and water turn- over of tippler pigeons with a harness and dorsal load. Condor 93:546-554. GILBERT, G., R. G. HELIE, AND J. M. MONDOUX. 1985. Ecosystem sensitivity to ...

With a less than one second lead against the second pigeon, a fine Blue Bar racing pigeon, ring ID ZA RADR 136-24, entered by the syndicate of Oliver Radford & Lionel Visser, secured the win in the ...

Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago July 12 - 14, 1925   The last of ten racing pigeons, liberated yesterday morning in Albany, Ill., at 5 a.m., … ...

Pigeons Loft Round Recap – Football & Netball Indigenous round - The sun was shining at the JC Lowe oval, with a great day being had both on the field and court.