A man holds a pigeon at a pigeon exhibition in Gaza City, April 25, 2019. In the Palestinian Gaza Strip, an exhibition gave fancy pigeon keepers an opportunity to show their various kinds of birds to ...

Welcome to the world of fancy pigeons. — -- Some 7,844 pigeons gathered this weekend at the 93rd annual Grand National Pigeon Show, and not one was the average street bird. Welcome to the world ...

Fancy pigeons — a popular pet among bird enthusiasts and show competitors — are being released in large numbers in Manheim Township. Although at least some of the colorful birds have been traced to a ...

Photographer Milton Morris captured the fascinating people and pigeons who flocked to the National Pigeon Association’s annual show. Founded in 1920, the group held the event in Myrtle Beach, S.C., ...

Is there anything better than a proud and fancy pigeon? (No. The answer is no.) And they’re not just pretty faces; they’re also modern-day scientific stand-ins for their dinosaur ancestors. Scientists ...

Henry Nicholls wonders how things would be different had Charles Darwin given in to pressure from his publisher to rewrite Origin of Species into a popular book about pigeons. “Pigeons indeed,” huffed ...

Tom Jackson cradles a pigeon in his hand and releases it on the ground. But instead of blasting off into the sky, the bird rolls over backward, kicking up dust as it propels itself across the barn ...

Considering how many pigeons there are it’s actually surprisingly quiet in here. And not smelly. There’s no hum of coos and no frantic beating of wings, just row up on row of cages containing a single ...

But pigeons, like rats, are infinitely adaptable, hence their remarkable survival, underlined by an amazing capacity to breed. And until the 1840s, when the telegraph was invented, pigeon post was ...

Mike Tyson slips off his black leather jacket and takes a white homing pigeon from Luthor Nelson’s hands. The former boxer — and pigeon fancier — easily tosses it up with one hand. Then he helps open ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31, 2013 – University of Utah researchers decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon, unlocking secrets about pigeons' Middle East origins, feral pigeons' kinship with ...