On a warm breezy May afternoon, Cass Witkowski, lifted an 8-day-old homing pigeon from its nest in Shamrock Loft — the name he has given his backyard coop behind his Bristol home — and ever-so gently ...

Now, discover the surprising origins of homing pigeons in World War II England from All Creatures Great and Small’s official historian, Dr. Mark Roodhouse of the University of York. As Siegfried ...

And right up until the invention of the telegraph, in 1844, homing pigeons remained the fastest way to send messages across long distances. The birds can fly for 1,000 miles in one race and can ...

Though the sport has a large enough following to bring $35,000 for a top racing pigeon in magazines devoted to the sport, McLean is among a dwindling number of people keeping the sport alive locally.