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 ...
“What was that?” Vincent Torre said. His three visitors saw nothing. Torre looked to his right and noticed that his 80 pigeons were all standing still, their heads aimed in the same direction, ...
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 ...
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 ...
FORT COLLINS — Ryan Barwick has 10 really flighty employees. They’re not always where they’re supposed to be and sometimes take off for hours. And don’t get him started on when they refuse to come ...
KERSEY, Colo. (AP) — Flying down U.S. 85 in his Dodge Magnum station wagon, Clint Vider carried a trunk full of birds, Bugzy the miniature schnauzer napping in a dog bed on the center console and a ...
NEW ALBANY — When Stephen Price agreed to let one of his tenants bring home a gaggle of pigeons, he didn’t know what he was getting himself into. To be fair, the tenant, Robert “Painter Bob” Maskalick ...