After Thanksgiving, Derek Duke and I were scouting Walk-in-the-Water WMA near Frostproof for an upcoming deer hunt. About 3 miles into the hike, we discovered a dead pigeon in the sugar sand trail.

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 ...

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 ...

A homing pigeon racer, or “fancier” to use the species-specific terminology, Meyer has his racing or homing pigeons driven out for distances up to 600 miles from their Decatur loft. Then, along with ...

BRISTOL — On a warm breezy May afternoon, Cass Witkowski, lifted an 8-day-old homing pigeon from its nest in Shamrock Loft — the name he has given his backyard coop behind his Bristol home — and ...

Scientists have long been baffled by pigeons’ ability to find their way back home from hundreds of miles away. And despite decades of study and research that have shown what the birds do, they still ...

LINDSAY, Neb. (AP) - More than 3,000 years ago, the Romans used homing pigeons as messengers, and pigeons were used as a symbol and sacrifice, both sacred and secular over the centuries by the English ...