At the Braintree/Norwood Racing Pigeon Club, enthusiasts train and race birds up to 600 miles, carrying on a time-honored tradition ...

t first glance, the animals in three small, white-painted wooden buildings in John Celia's backyard in Silver Spring, Md., look like the street birds that get little respect in cities all over the ...

Van Gaver, 38, had been breeding racing pigeons since he was 5. It was a hobby he inherited from his father who inherited it from his great grandfather. The pigeons could find their way home from ...

Hundreds of pigeons emerge from a slim opening in a backyard shed outfitted into a coop, their heads bobbing as their owner, Wilberto Aponte out, shoos them out, gruffly urging them to fly. In a ...

When Marco Palomares was a teen in his hometown of Morelia, Michoacan, a friend gave him two racing pigeons. His heart skipped a beat. The teen's delight was short-lived because his father made him ...

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 ...

DENVER • It’s not yet time to release the pigeons. “I’ve got a little problem,” says Eduardo Gonzalez, pointing to the Cooper’s hawk circling above his backyard loft. The loft is home to Gonzalez’s ...