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

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.

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

Charles the pigeon had the Germans in a flap during the First World War, hiding in piles of laundry or in the bedclothes, and once even disguised ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.