The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...

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 ...

Whether he was training pigeons to serve in World War II or sorting chicks, riding a bucking bronco or calling for bids at a livestock auction, Ed Schmidt's long life has often revolved around animals ...

The homing ability of a group of pigeons raised under conditions of continuous exposure to wind-borne information was compared to that of another group subjected to exposure to winds only during the ...

"When I go pheasant hunting I would rather go chase them down than shoot them down," said the Pierre chiropractor and state senator about his interest in fowl. And 46 years ago, while in the sixth ...

Yeah - winged rats, sky rodents. Charles Walcott of Cornell wishes we'd give pigeons a little more respect. CHARLES WALCOTT: You can take one of these pigeons a thousand miles or more in any direction ...