And right up until the invention of the telegraph, in 1844, homing pigeons remained the fastest way to send messages across long distances. The birds can fly for 1,000 miles in one race and can ...

They are now taking up the challenge of pigeon racing, releasing their specially-trained homing pigeons, which fly off into the distance and later return home for glory. Keelie Wright is now a ...

Two brazen racing pigeons have been spotted snooping ... that while peregrines are extremely fast, they can "only out-fly a pigeon when they are stooping [swooping down on their prey from a ...