Welcome to the world of fancy pigeons. — -- Some 7,844 pigeons gathered this weekend at the 93rd annual Grand National Pigeon Show, and not one was the average street bird. Welcome to the world ...

Fancy pigeons — a popular pet among bird enthusiasts and show competitors — are being released in large numbers in Manheim Township. Although at least some of the colorful birds have been traced to a ...

Tom Jackson cradles a pigeon in his hand and releases it on the ground. But instead of blasting off into the sky, the bird rolls over backward, kicking up dust as it propels itself across the barn ...

For at least 500 years—and maybe more—pigeon fanciers have bred wonderfully bizarre-looking pigeons. Today, there hundreds of breeds and colors, and, just like cats and dogs, there are competitions to ...

However, because pigeons are a bit more prolific than Black Angus steers or even golden retrievers for that matter, pigeon people tend to be a bit more consumed by their work. Year round they labor, ...

A man holds a pigeon at a pigeon exhibition in Gaza City, April 25, 2019. In the Palestinian Gaza Strip, an exhibition gave fancy pigeon keepers an opportunity to show their various kinds of birds to ...

BETHEL -- You'll probably never see the kind of pigeons that Malcolm Ford breeds sitting on a statue. But if you did, you'd immediately notice something very different about them. A small head that ...

Considering how many pigeons there are it’s actually surprisingly quiet in here. And not smelly. There’s no hum of coos and no frantic beating of wings, just row up on row of cages containing a single ...

Pigeons have been linked to humans since ancient times. Already by the year 3200BC pigeons were kept in Egypt for meat purposes, as well as to be used as messengers. Nowadays, 5217 years later, ...