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

The Odisha police currently maintains a fleet of about 150 Belgian homing pigeons, primarily housed at the Police Pigeon Service Center in Cuttack. The pigeons are trained to cover distances of up ...

“My parents bought a farm and they had no time so I took over. We had homing pigeons that were raised for eating, but I didn’t want to eat them anymore,” says Ray. He sold a pair to a pet ...

Dung beetles navigate via the Milky Way galaxy. Homing pigeons have tiny iron oxide crystals in the skin lining their upper beak that function as sensors for the earth’s magnetic field. Sea turtles ...

Ahh, homing keys. F and J, with their little bumps or lines that home your fingers on the… home row. The Kinesis Advantage doesn’t have them, unfortunately, but makes up for it with deep-dish ...

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. Tommy the ...

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.

There's something oddly mesmerising about watching pigeons and doves in British gardens and woodlands go about their daily business. Often dismissed as mundane, these birds reveal surprising ...

The Germans, aware that pigeons were being used to relay messages to the Allies, ordered a homing pigeon cull. The pigeon had been released by its owner in Christchurch, and returned to him in ...

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In the avian world, birds showcase an incredible diversity of beaks—some enormous, others unusually long, and some even lethal. All hornbill species have a unique structure called a casque on ...

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