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 ...

"When I go pheasant hunting I would rather go chase them down than shoot them down," said the Pierre chiropractor and state senator about his interest in fowl. And 46 years ago, while in the sixth ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS | The bird is under a wire basket in some grassy cover on an acreage west of Sioux Falls. About a dozen paces distant, Greta, a gorgeous 10-year-old German wirehair, is scenting around, ...

May 21, 2004, 9:09 AM EDT / Source: Reuters Britain considered training pigeons to deliver biological weapons after World War Two but decided the birds had outlived their usefulness in battle, ...