This was the moment a large-scale pigeon race started at L'Ancresse Bay in Guernsey on Saturday morning. Hundreds of homing pigeons flew around the bay before heading off across the Channel to various ...

RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...

LONDON — Animal rights activists say they have “rescued” three racing pigeons that had been kept at King Charles’s royal estate — and are calling on the monarch to cut ties with the “archaic and often ...

In lofts across Portugal's countryside, racing pigeons are more than birds. They are athletes, valuable investments and members of the family.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BELGRADE — Dušan Smetana opens the metal gates to his pigeon coop, releasing a flutter of ...

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 ...