Thursday, June 6, marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day — when Allied forces launched the largest amphibious attack in the history of warfare on the beaches of Normandy, France. To mark the occasion, ...

The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is the oldest continuously running livestock show and rodeo in the United States. Each year the 130-year-old event draws more than 1 million attendees and is home ...

HEADLAND ‒ As the group of homing pigeons circled the sky above, John Ross Helms whistled ‒ the signal that usually brings the birds back to their pen because they associate it with eating. Helms ...

Scientists have long been baffled by pigeons’ ability to find their way back home from hundreds of miles away. And despite decades of study and research that have shown what the birds do, they still ...

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 ...

The Amarillo Pigeon Racing Club is one of about 40 such clubs across Texas, according to directories kept by the American Pigeon Racing Union and the Texas Center of Racing Pigeon Clubs. From Odessa ...

A speedy race bitch who won seven of her 15 starts over the shorts at Bulli, Gosford, Richmond and Wentworth Park. At the ...

In 1923 a Wyoming rancher named Charles (”Cowboy”) Irwin trained a stable of 50 horses which won 147 races that season. Only two other trainers in U. S. Turf history had ever saddled more than 100 ...

RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Guarding against avian flu, which has forced a mass cull of birds in China, pigeon fancier Wang Jincang paid out nearly $400 (323 pounds) to get his 200 racing pigeons vaccinated ...