If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate ... are taking there against a pigeon. A racing pigeon found in Melbourne was believed to have come across the Pacific Ocean from the ...

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

RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon ... that we need to do something about this.” But for Bungeneers that is also a sign that a way of life is being lost.

It was 1918, and a troop of Allied soldiers who would later be called the “Lost Battalion” had one last hope: A pigeon ... we’re in this moment where animals are going to have to adapt ...

The one valuable result of the extinction of the passenger pigeon was that it aroused public interest in the need for strong conservation laws. Because these laws were put into effect, we have saved ...

But some claims are as high as 10 billion. Hein van Grouw, our Senior Curator of Birds, says, “it’s hard to say how numerous passenger pigeons would have been. The numbers we have are all estimates ...

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