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

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

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.

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 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 during World War Two has been sold at auction for £30,000.

A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance during World War Two has been sold at auction for £30,000. Tommy, from Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, was blown off course and ...

The so-called domestic pigeon derived from the wild rock dove has an innate homing ability. Flights as long as 1100 miles have been recorded by birds in competitive homing pigeon racing. During the ...

A military medal awarded to a racing pigeon for his heroic wartime exploits is coming home to Furness after it was bought on behalf of the ...

For hundreds and even thousands of years, homing pigeons were used to send messages across countries and even continents. The smart birds were let loose while carrying an important message ...

"But once homing pigeons have flown a journey more than once, they appear to ignore the traditional forms of navigation and depend more and more on the roads that they remember being on the route ...