Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are ...

Odisha’s carrier pigeon service still maintains a fleet of around 150 birds, though their purpose has grown increasingly ...

He, like his father before him, used homing pigeons to deliver prescription drugs in loads of up to 75 grams. This makes us wonder if the birds are ever used in modern drug running? The ...

Trying to keep the comparison fair ... the internet only wins when you consider distances of thousands of miles. Homing pigeons win at distances up to a few hundred miles.

Pigeons find their way home after being released in the Falls Saturday morning, hundreds of birds are set to pepper the Borderland sky as they head southward toward their homes near the Twin ...

It suggests that as more farmers are now growing oil seed rape, wood pigeons have found a great source of food to get them through winter. This simple (and cheap) barrier solution was the most ...

Homing pigeons – a type of domestic pigeon descended from the rock pigeon – are extremely effective messengers because of their innate homing abilities, enabling them to return to their nest ...