SOUTH JORDAN, Utah – It was on doctor's orders that the self-identified "pigeon man" didn't go home Tuesday. Boris Majnaric, a 75-year-old retired schoolteacher, was recently hospitalized and advised ...

She's already pondering a possible £150 million bill for repairs to crumbling Buckingham Palace. Now the Queen is having to splash out on another dilapidated home that has become entirely ill-suited ...

Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are three classic examples. Homing pigeons–which are pigeons trained by humans ...

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Everyone who lives in the city has seen pigeons. To most they are just another bird in the background. Sometimes someone tosses them a piece of bread or some such in the Fred Meyer parking lot, but ...

In a pigeon coop in a suburban Queensland backyard, you'll find birds, feed, bedding — and two girls. For cousins Hayley Kruger, 12, and Elyn Andreasen, nine, this is their slice of paradise. Hayley ...

Keelie Wright has picked up top prizes and has become well known within pigeon racing For the uninitiated the world of the pigeon fancier conjures up an image of an old man in a flat cap, with the ...

The village green in Tackley is picture perfect Oxfordshire, the kind of place which looks as if it has barely changed in centuries let alone the 70 odd years since World War II. But behind its ...

Suspected criminal gangs are leaving pigeon racers bereft after a spate of thefts in aviaries across the country When champion pigeon racer Tom Van Gaver walked into one of his lofts one morning last ...

LIMBURG, Belgium — The Chinese businessmen arrived in the Belgian countryside driving luxury sports cars, ferrying translators and bags of cash. When they parked in front of Tom Van Gaver’s small ...

For the uninitiated the world of the pigeon fancier conjures up an image of an old man in a flat cap, with the sport of racing the birds perhaps considered a pursuit for those of a certain vintage.