IT'S 70 years since D-Day and now we find that intelligent, gentle pigeons, which were the first to relay messages of the successful Normandy landings, are being hurt and killed for 'sport' by ...

LONDON — Animal rights activists say they have “rescued” three racing pigeons that had been kept at King Charles’s royal estate — and are calling on the monarch to cut ties with the “archaic and often ...

RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...

Pigeon racing enthusiasts gather regularly in Norwood, Mass., to participate in a centuries-old sport — pigeon racing! John McGinley, president and race secretary of the Braintree/Norwood Racing ...

ANDALUSIA, Ill. — It's a sport with an aerial race track. The starting line can be hundreds of miles away from the Quad Cities, and the finish line is home. A group of people raise and train pigeons ...

The American Racing Pigeon Union (ARPU) has announced the induction of Earl Lowell “No Sweat” Robbins, Jr. into its prestigious Hall of Fame — the highest honor bestowed upon pigeon fanciers in the ...