t first glance, the animals in three small, white-painted wooden buildings in John Celia's backyard in Silver Spring, Md., look like the street birds that get little respect in cities all over the ...

The pigeons could find their way home from hundreds of miles away, flying at 50 miles per hour. Van Gaver's birds, which he entered in national races, were among the best in Belgium. For a century, ...

Hundreds of pigeons emerge from a slim opening in a backyard shed outfitted into a coop, their heads bobbing as their owner, Wilberto Aponte out, shoos them out, gruffly urging them to fly. In a ...

When Marco Palomares was a teen in his hometown of Morelia, Michoacan, a friend gave him two racing pigeons. His heart skipped a beat. The teen's delight was short-lived because his father made him ...

DENVER • It’s not yet time to release the pigeons. “I’ve got a little problem,” says Eduardo Gonzalez, pointing to the Cooper’s hawk circling above his backyard loft. The loft is home to Gonzalez’s ...