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 ever-so gently ...

Roodhouse explained, “Pigeon fancying in the UK was a huge working-class pastime all over the country. People would raise homing pigeons to race them—they’d have a pigeon loft, train the ...

McLean, 85, has been raising pigeons since he was 9 years ... “Doc” McLean may be better known in local circles as a homing pigeon expert and the best of the best in pigeon racing, or at ...

Volunteers with the London Pigeon Rescue, Jennie Brennan and Jacob ... the health of the city's most overlooked birds while raising awareness on how littering affects urban wildlife.

Although homing pigeons are usually used, Harvard Yard pigeons have also shown aptitude, readily learning to play a modified game of ping pong as well as the piano tunes. Professor Skinner has ...