What we do know is that its visit led a small crew of caring animal lovers into the wide world of pigeon racing and keeping. In mid-September, a teacher at the Montpelier Children’s House had stopped ...
Dwindling open spaces and fast-fading traditions threaten a pursuit that can trace its roots back centuries. Animal rights ...
Meet "Dinosaur," the 17 foot tall, two-ton aluminum pigeon. For the next year-and-a-half, its perch will be New York City's High Line. "Pigeons and birds, as we know, are what remains of dinosaurs ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Away from the high-stakes glamour of the big-money race days, Warwick Farm-based trainer Gary Portelli is just as happy focusing on ...
Despite the dove reference in their name, Denis said her birds are white racing pigeons, which are trained to fly to their home. Students release white pigeons as part of their graduation tradition.
Her current flock includes a lost racing pigeon who needed a home because his ... when they nest in cities - where there is a food supply - and leave droppings on buildings. This is something ...
It makes or breaks the show bird," Mr Spencley says. And not to be forgotten, specially bred racing pigeons can fly 1,300 kilometres within two days and travel at speeds of 50–60 kilometres per ...
You might not have ever heard of pigeon racing, but there are clubs all around Aotearoa with people just like these two competitng.
NEW YORK − There's a giant pigeon in Manhattan. And it's making people everywhere understand more about the much-maligned birds and the flightiness of their biggest critics - humans. The 16-foot ...
Driving through Christchurch you might see a flock of birds glide by and think nothing of it, but somewhere in a residential area just off a main road, a father and son have just cracked a cold ...