PETOSKEY — Sensing opportunities for children and teens to learn and have fun, Mike Netzky hopes to see pigeon racing take flight as a pastime in Northern Michigan. Netzky, a Springvale Township ...

The athletes trained almost from birth to compete in the 350-mile race from Nebraska’s Panhandle to Omaha. These racers aren’t runners — they’re flyers, homing pigeons to be exact.

Because some lofts are closer to the race site than others, pigeons aren’t judged strictly on their finish times. Winners are determined by calculating how many yards per minute the bird flew from ...

Eagles are majestic. Doves are romantic. Pigeons, with their tatty wings and street-living ways, are seen by many folks as dumb and dirty, referred to as the “rats of the sky.” But if you ever met a ...

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 ...

Over 4 years, only two known cases of fluke invasions were diagnosed in racing pigeons (Columba livia) originating from different regions of Poland. In both cases, the invasion was characterized by a ...