STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Homing pigeons -- those birds with the remarkable ability to find their way home over vast distances -- have fascinated city-dwellers for over half-a-century. Decades ago, the ...

It sounds like something the Flintstones would do: Send a super-fast message, tie it to a bird’s leg and let go. Amazingly, this works — as long as the bird is a trained homing pigeon. And it’s not ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. — At 6:35 a.m., under a blood-red sky, 1,075 pigeons sip water in a ventilated trailer in the Wal-Mart parking lot before the Greater Boston Homing Pigeon Concourse race to Boston. They ...

KERSEY, Colo. (AP) — Flying down U.S. 85 in his Dodge Magnum station wagon, Clint Vider carried a trunk full of birds, Bugzy the miniature schnauzer napping in a dog bed on the center console and a ...

Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: John Silver -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The First Feathered Recruits -- Chapter 2. Pigeons for Sea Duty -- Chapter 3. Put to the Test -- Chapter 4. Into the Breach - ...

Agaton Strom’s images of pigeons possess a classic quality about them, recalling the days of Marlon Brando’s On the Waterfront, when pigeon rearing was the working man’s sport. We asked the award ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Flying down U.S. 85 in his Dodge Magnum station wagon Saturday, Clint Vider carried a trunk full of birds, Bugzy the miniature schnauzer napping in a dog bed ...