What happens to the homing pigeons that lose their way home? It sounds like the premise to a joke - like the road-crossing chicken but in the air. The truth is, however, some pigeons cannot find ...

Avian enthusiast Emil Schachtzabel (1850-1941) was fascinated by the wide variety of hybrid pigeon breeds that fanciers ...

Dwindling open spaces and fast-fading traditions threaten a pursuit that can trace its roots back centuries. Animal rights ...

What happens to the homing pigeons that lose their way home? It sounds like the premise to a joke - like the road-crossing chicken but in the air. The truth is, however, some pigeons cannot find their ...

"But once homing pigeons have flown a journey more than once, they appear to ignore the traditional forms of navigation and depend more and more on the roads that they remember being on the route ...

We are their cliffs now." During both World Wars, pigeons became valuable partners thanks to their visual acuity and homing ability. According to McMahon, paratroopers would leap out of planes ...

We will probably never know why the pigeon ended up in a Montpelier parking lot. Perhaps it got tired or lost. Or it got left behind. What we do know is that its visit led a small crew of caring ...

People think they are vermin, “rats with wings”, and they deserve all the bad PR they get. One of the most famous pigeons on ...

They made for great posties, thanks to their homing ability, or what BBC Security Correspondent and pigeon fan Gordon Corera describes as their “superpower”. In Corera’s book Operation ...