Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Animal welfare charity calls on Queen to abandon lifelong commitment to racing pigeons Topical Press Agency / Getty Images Animal rights activists have called ...

Before the Wi-fi and the Internet, the telephone and the telegraph, the original instant messaging services of society were homing pigeons. After becoming the first domesticated birds, for an ...

Image Credit: Eric Ogden/Animal PlanetIf you’ve always dreamed of a reality series involving Mike Tyson and pigeons, well…. you have weird dreams. But Animal Planet just might have a show for you.

Harrison County Animal Control made a Facebook post on Tuesday to tell the story of a pigeon that landed in a Jane Lew woman's yard that looked a little different.

In Taiwan, racers Cliff Chen and Yang Ming-Hua train pigeons for a five-stage sea championship. As their birds race home, ...

The prised racing pigeon Armando had been expected to break the previous record of €376,000, but he could easily triple the ...

To the untrained eye, it might look like Smetana has simply let his birds fly free, never to return. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

A Chinese buyer bid more than $1.4 million for a prized Belgian racing pigeon in an “unprecedented” sale, according to the auctioneer that organized the sale. The pigeon, named Armando, is considered ...

A Warrnambool pigeon racing club plans to release 150 pigeons to race about 300km home from Lascelles, in the Wimmera, back to Warrnambool on Sunday, August 30. DEECA has exempted pigeon racing from ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Pigeons are one of the oldest domesticated birds. They have been kept for thousands of years and used for food, ...

It's a late Saturday morning and a dozen men are hanging out in a scraggly playing field in Borobudur, Indonesia. There's a shaded dugout along one edge, and a worn patch of dirt in the center that ...