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 ...

Shooting a series on the age-old sport of fancying – otherwise known as breeding and racing pigeons – had been on the ... not knowing where to look with the sheer chaos of pigeons flying everywhere ...

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 ...

City residents were shocked to see pigeons stumbling out into the road, unable to fly and then falling over dead over the last weekend. EastIdahoNews.com has not been able to find out which ...