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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pigeon racing began in Belgium in the 1800s and is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons who then return to their loft, or home, over a measured distance. Distances can be ...

RANST, Belgium (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most, if not all, fanciers today turn to the horticulturist by trade for wisdom, guidance, and the rich bloodlines of the racing pigeons he breeds from his St Catherine lofts. In fact, most ...

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 ...