Vick Corso, Ronnie Schwehm and Joe Graffia, members of the Slidell Pigeon Racing Club, are back at their lofts, awaiting their pigeons. They are participating in an old sport played around the ...

holding one of the dozens of pigeons he keeps in his lofts. The birds are the beginning, middle and end of pigeon racing because they are doing all the work, Roberts added. Sure, he and his fellow ...

Allowances are made to adjust for distances between lofts. Pigeon racing shares many similarities to horse racing in that there are pedigrees, prizes, training, special diets and auctions involved ...

The rest of the birds follow the leader into the loft. Cargiulo, who is retired, is one of hundreds of local residents — all men — who spend several weeks between March and May racing pigeons.

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 ...

Club member Bill Fredrick befriended Palomares and gave him his first racing pigeon — something Palomares will never forget. That same year, Palomares invested $700 and bought a used loft and 50 ...

The loft is home to Gonzalez’s pigeons ... These are Gonzalez’s racing pigeons, among the few hundred that might compete any given weekend of the year, weather permitting, in events put ...

According to historians, pigeon racing as a sport began in Belgium ... lets them go in and out of an aviary fastened to a cage and loft about the size of a large shed where they’re housed ...

He took his sons along to his brother's loft in Portadown in County Armagh but the travel led them to losing interest. But on noticing that the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (RPRA) had a young ...

An animal-rights group says it has bought and rehomed three pigeons from the King's estate in Sandringham, arguing that pigeon racing is cruel. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta ...