DENVER • It’s not yet time to release the pigeons. “I’ve got a little problem,” says Eduardo Gonzalez, pointing to the Cooper’s hawk circling above his backyard loft. The loft is home to Gonzalez’s ...

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Start them young. Give them a good home so they want to come back. By Malia Wollan “Don’t get too attached,” says Joseph LaQuiere, a 16-year-old youth ambassador for the American Racing Pigeon Union.

Hope, Emily Dickinson wrote, is the thing with feathers. Or, in this case, lots of feathers. Lots and lots of feathers. Stan Elkins has an unusual hope. The 43-year-old police officer hopes to ...

Jim Effting's trained his pigeons to find their way home after being released 600 miles away. No one really knows how they do it. "Scientists have studied them forever," Jim said. "They've tried to ...

So what do you do when a pigeon lands in your life? Especially a racing pigeon that, as far as I can tell from multiple leg tags, was more than 300 miles from his Missouri home when he decided to make ...

Joe Green spends many hours on this roof in Gravesend. It's where he breeds and trains racing pigeons. "You have here what you call sprinters, middle distance and long distance,” says Joe Green ...

Allison Stine was home on a late afternoon looking over her new pool when she noticed some unexpected visitors. "I looked out the window, and there were pigeons sitting in my pool," Stine said. She ...

More than 100 prized racing pigeons disappeared, leading to a search for clues in South Carolina, cops say. “This was my pride and joy you know,” owner John Georgopoulos told WSPA. “Other than you ...