Air mail delivery is an essential part of modern life. The history of this unique invention goes back farther than you might ...

Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S.

Becky Contos and her husband Michael drove five hours from Reno to the Oakland Animal Services to find a friend for their pigeon at home. One look at Aspen, a shy white pigeon, and they were sold.

Tommy the pigeon, from Dalton-in-Furness, was awarded a Dickin Medal, considered the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, after undertaking a perilous journey with a message for British ...

A military medal which was awarded to a Cumbrian racing pigeon who assisted the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War has been sold at auction and will return to his local area.

A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance ... The Dickin Medal, often known as the Victoria Cross for animals, was given to him in 1946 and has been bought by the Dock ...

They have also been trained to accomplish important missions as carrier and homing pigeons. Escaped domestic ... the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ...