As WWI & II history enthusiasts, pigeon fanciers, and now All Creatures Great and Small viewers know, pigeons have made valuable contributions to war efforts, carrying crucial messages in ...

Cher Ami was a black check cock homing pigeon, one of 600 English-bred birds donated to the U.S. Army Signal Corps ... identification band on his left leg is stamped “NURP 18 EAD 615” which translates ...

100 Years After Her Death, Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon, Still Resonates The famed bird now finds itself at the center of a flap over de-extinction ...

In the Northeast, the racing season for pigeons born this year — a.k.a. young birds — begins in August and runs through late October. Birds more than 1 year old race in the spring and fly ...

"A pigeon baby is yellow when it is born," Cordova-Rojas said. "It has yellow fluff on it." There are hundreds of pigeon breeds. Since humans domesticated pigeons thousands of years ago, ...

The American Racing Pigeon Union’s website shows that there were over 51,000 sanctioned races in 2023. The races are split into categories by distance – 100, 250, 300, 400 and 500 miles.

A colossal pigeon sculpture has landed on the High Line. Here’s when and how to see it. ... Argote, a Paris-based, Bogotá-born artist who currently has work in the Venice Biennale, ...

Artist Iván Argote understands that pigeons ruffle many people’s feathers. But he’s hoping to change how the public views the bird by putting a massive one on a pedestal in New York City.