Until the introduction of telephones, pigeons were used for communication commercially, and in war times, under the clever ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

I write about the world of biology. Long before the invention of modern aviation technology, societies relied on homing pigeons to send messages across long distances. A trained homing pigeon ...