The fall pigeon derby is on! Over 1,000 pigeons, participants in a race to points in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, were released at the Pittsfield station Saturday by Carroll D. White, agent for the ...

After Thanksgiving, Derek Duke and I were scouting Walk-in-the-Water WMA near Frostproof for an upcoming deer hunt. About 3 miles into the hike, we discovered a dead pigeon in the sugar sand trail.

LINDSAY, Neb. (AP) - More than 3,000 years ago, the Romans used homing pigeons as messengers, and pigeons were used as a symbol and sacrifice, both sacred and secular over the centuries by the English ...

Yeah - winged rats, sky rodents. Charles Walcott of Cornell wishes we'd give pigeons a little more respect. CHARLES WALCOTT: You can take one of these pigeons a thousand miles or more in any direction ...

In 1923 a Wyoming rancher named Charles (”Cowboy”) Irwin trained a stable of 50 horses which won 147 races that season. Only two other trainers in U. S. Turf history had ever saddled more than 100 ...

BELGRADE — Hale Misa Smetana was named by a pigeon. No, it was not a talking pigeon. It was a homing pigeon that arrived first during a race last June, shortly after Misa (pronounced Meesha) was born.

The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is the oldest continuously running livestock show and rodeo in the United States. Each year the 130-year-old event draws more than 1 million attendees and is home ...

BEIJING — If you ever try to cheat in a pigeon race, just remember this: Bullet trains travel much faster than homing pigeons. Two men who tried to rig a bird race in China — and claim $160,000 in ...

Allen Small was 9 years old when he bought his first pigeon for 25 cents. That was 70 years ago. Now, after spending tens of thousands of dollars and nearly a lifetime breeding and racing the birds, ...

People who live in cities have come up with some terrible names for pigeons. Yeah - winged rats, sky rodents. Charles Walcott of Cornell wishes we'd give pigeons a little more respect. CHARLES WALCOTT ...

The racing pigeons went missing last month in Cambridgeshire, England, and watchers were stumped. Race officials think they might have been confused by wind or solar activity. Yeah - winged rats, sky ...