You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WESTBROOK — Raising and racing homing pigeons can be a fun labor of love, ...

The Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Organizers of a race for homing pigeons are still scratching their heads in wonder after about 75 percent of the birds -- famous for their ability to find ...

They flew the coop — and vanished into thin air. Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5,000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. “We’ve seen one of the very ...

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 ...