STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Homing pigeons -- those birds with the remarkable ability to find their way home over vast distances -- have fascinated city-dwellers for over half-a-century. Decades ago, the ...

Whether he was training pigeons to serve in World War II or sorting chicks, riding a bucking bronco or calling for bids at a livestock auction, Ed Schmidt's long life has often revolved around animals ...

It sounds like something the Flintstones would do: Send a super-fast message, tie it to a bird’s leg and let go. Amazingly, this works — as long as the bird is a trained homing pigeon. And it’s not ...

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD:Yes, it is true; CECOM's early history was for the birds… pigeons to be exact. Pigeons were vital to military communications during war and in peacetime. While pigeons had ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 25, No. 4 (1989), pp. 293-302 (10 pages) By means of training flights (mostly flock releases), two groups of young homing pigeons were made familiar with a ...

Walta described how he recently released some pigeons on a training session from the golf course in Proctor. Instead of flying back to Brandon, one of the pigeons flew 75 miles to Stowe, where it was ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. — At 6:35 a.m., under a blood-red sky, 1,075 pigeons sip water in a ventilated trailer in the Wal-Mart parking lot before the Greater Boston Homing Pigeon Concourse race to Boston. They ...

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD:Yes, it is true; CECOM's early history was for the birds… pigeons to be exact. Pigeons were vital to military communications during war and in peacetime. While pigeons had ...