RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...
Armando was described as the Lewis Hamilton of pigeons. Armando is not your ordinary pigeon. He's been called the Lewis Hamilton of pigeon racing. He's mean, lean and one of pigeon racing's (yes, that ...
Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped. An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee Monday.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — How does a person learn to love pigeons? “Most of us started when we were kids,” says local pigeon breeder Ed Pointer. His fascination began at the age of 10 and in all that ...
Leave your prejudices at the door to avoid running a-fowl of these competitors. The kicked off its on Thursday in Vancouver, the first time the city has hosted the event. The three-day event hosts ...
When Larry Wilmes tells the story about how he became a pigeon fancier, it starts with a long ride from Mankato to Pipestone in the back seat of a 1960s Plymouth. He was just a kid, a fledgling bird ...
A dozen Iraqi pigeon breeders, who were rounded up by ISIS militants for partaking in the un-Islamic pastime, had their ransoms paid and were released. Abu Abdullah, 52, a farmer, borrowed money from ...
“This is my son,” he said, picking up his favorite pigeon. “I deal with all the pigeons like my son or my children.” Hassan’s pigeons cost him $600 a month in food alone, but he says it’s a hobby that ...