In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse Somewhere on ...
Pigeon racing is taking off in China. Eight thousand of the birds were released into the winter sky in northern Hebei province last month, one of the many long-distance races holding out a promise of ...
Every day during the racing season, 55-year-old Zhang Yajun wakes at 4 a.m. and carefully loads bamboo cages containing his 76 cherished racing pigeons into a van. Then he drives up to 200 kilometers ...
Ron Actis paced his back yard and scanned the skies above Kirker Pass for his pigeons racing home from Nevada. It was a 180-mile, four-hour-plus romp for the birds. It was an exhilarating and ...
Imagine if someone invaded your home, tore you away from your family, drove you hundreds of miles away and then let you go. You don't know where you are, and you're desperate to get back home. You're ...
Regarding the article “Pigeon Racer Fined $5,500 For Killing Hawks” [Oct. 19, courant.com]: The birds of prey that Thomas Kapusta killed were just doing what nature compels them to do. Pigeon racers ...
BLANDFORD, Mass. (THE WESTFIELD NEWS) – Some rural and hill town children aren’t satisfied with playing Pokemon Go. Instead, they prefer to race pigeons. The sport of pigeon racing is an international ...
Your perception of pigeons is wrong, these Australians say. Their lives revolve around them — but their worlds couldn't be ...