Waikato pigeon fancier Ray Hooker’s interest in his grandmother’s and father’s pigeons, budgies, canaries and cockatiels ended up with him being given the responsibility for them at 11 years old. “My ...

Waikato pigeon fancier Ray Hooker’s interest in his grandmother’s and father’s pigeons, budgies, canaries and cockatiels ended up with him being given the responsibility for them at 11 years old.

“When the older breeders passed on ... and the racing homers, and the white homing pigeons. Did you know that when birds are released at weddings, they are not doves…? They are white homing ...

Until the introduction of telephones, pigeons were used for communication commercially, and in war times, under the clever ...

Finnerty belongs to a small but devoted group of hobbyists who breed, raise and race homing pigeons in their backyards across Northeast Ohio. They train the birds to harness their mysterious ...

And there are over 800 breeds of pigeon ... And right up until the invention of the telegraph, in 1844, homing pigeons remained the fastest way to send messages across long distances.

Pigeon fanciers from around the world have flocked to Blackpool Pigeon fanciers from around the world have flocked to a seaside town for their annual show. The British Homing World Show was held ...

Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are three classic examples.

This grandson of an earlier military pigeon breeder has raised many of this generation ... as to why the pigeons have such an extraordinary homing ability. It has been shown that pigeons orient ...