What kind of bird do you think someone might pay a lot of money for? A rare macaw, a peacock, maybe an ostrich? How about a pigeon? A multi-millionaire from China paid a record $1.4 million dollars ...

PETOSKEY — The Flying Clovers Racing Pigeon Club will be sponsoring a national youth race Saturday, Sept. 26, in which birds will fly from the Grand Rapids area back to Pickerel Lake. The birds came ...

Despite numerous studies and a variety of theories, no one knows for sure how homing pigeons can always find their way back home. Their amazing ability to navigate while flying 40-45 miles per hour ...

t first glance, the animals in three small, white-painted wooden buildings in John Celia's backyard in Silver Spring, Md., look like the street birds that get little respect in cities all over the ...

For youth who are interested in raising an animal, but don’t have the room or budget for large livestock, racing pigeons might offer an option. The Flying Clovers 4-H Racing Pigeon Club is in its ...

ANDALUSIA, Ill. — It's a sport with an aerial race track. The starting line can be hundreds of miles away from the Quad Cities, and the finish line is home. A group of people raise and train pigeons ...

Logan Dean gently cradled a pigeon named Pablo in his hands. He stood inside the backyard loft where Logan and his dad, Scott, feed, water and care for dozens of racing homers — pigeons bred and ...

Erio Álvarez holds one of his prize breeding pigeons. (Photo by Philip Morgan) [ Photo: Phylip Morgan ] Times Correspondent The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — You’ve probably heard of racing boats, cars, and horses but what about racing pigeons? Well, one Hawaii pigeon racer said he does just that, and he isn’t the only one. Racing ...

Start them young. Give them a good home so they want to come back. By Malia Wollan “Don’t get too attached,” says Joseph LaQuiere, a 16-year-old youth ambassador for the American Racing Pigeon Union.

Allen Small was 9 years old when he bought his first pigeon for 25 cents. That was 70 years ago. Now, after spending tens of thousands of dollars and nearly a lifetime breeding and racing the birds, ...