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 ...

The cousins are involved in the juniors program at Bundaberg One Loft Pigeon Club, and one of their birds came third in last year's race. Under Australian National Pigeon Racing Board rules for a ...

A pigeon racing enthusiast says she ‘hated’ the birds - until she met her husband and it became a hobby they could share together. When they moved in together in 1993, Pauline Brown accepted ...

"Pigeon racing is obviously birds being liberated ... Andrew also said with the new electronic ways they track birds it means less handling so their wellbeing is "by far" better off compared ...

People would raise homing pigeons to race them—they’d have a pigeon loft, train the pigeons, and then load up the birds of all the pigeon club members into a backet. They’d drive the baskets ...