BRISTOL — On a warm breezy May afternoon, Cass Witkowski, lifted an 8-day-old homing pigeon from its nest in Shamrock Loft — the name he has given his backyard coop behind his Bristol home — and ...

Before the Wi-fi and the Internet, the telephone and the telegraph, the original instant messaging services of society were homing pigeons. After becoming the first domesticated birds, for an ...

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 ...