It sounds like something the Flintstones would do: Send a super-fast message, tie it to a bird’s leg and let go. Amazingly, this works — as long as the bird is a trained homing pigeon. And it’s not ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Employees at the Alpine Golf Club in Kent County are hoping to use social media to help find the owner of what they think is a lost homing pigeon. The bird showed up on the golf ...

Homing pigeons combine multiple navigation systems—using the sun’s position for direction, a magnetic sense to orient on ...

“What was that?” Vincent Torre said. His three visitors saw nothing. Torre looked to his right and noticed that his 80 pigeons were all standing still, their heads aimed in the same direction, ...

After Thanksgiving, Derek Duke and I were scouting Walk-in-the-Water WMA near Frostproof for an upcoming deer hunt. About 3 miles into the hike, we discovered a dead pigeon in the sugar sand trail.

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KERSEY, Colo. (AP) — Flying down U.S. 85 in his Dodge Magnum station wagon, Clint Vider carried a trunk full of birds, Bugzy the miniature schnauzer napping in a dog bed on the center console and a ...