OSAKIS, Minn. -- “Get out,” Mike Massman hollered from within his family’s pigeon loft. “Out!” A faint fluttering of wings echoed within the enclosure before 36 pigeons emerged from the loft’s ...

ANDALUSIA, Ill. — It's a sport with an aerial race track. The starting line can be hundreds of miles away from the Quad Cities, and the finish line is home. A group of people raise and train pigeons ...

Frank Varriello is increasing security after at least 275 of his birds were stolen from pens in his backyard over the course of a week, WTVT reported. "You spend many years developing and training ...

RENSSELAER — A Aorthwest Indiana man wants 4-H youth to experience the same excitement and joy he receives when his racing pigeons find their way back home after a long flight. Mike Parrish has ...

Armando was described as the Lewis Hamilton of pigeons. Armando is not your ordinary pigeon. He's been called the Lewis Hamilton of pigeon racing. He's mean, lean and one of pigeon racing's (yes, that ...

Start them young. Give them a good home so they want to come back. By Malia Wollan “Don’t get too attached,” says Joseph LaQuiere, a 16-year-old youth ambassador for the American Racing Pigeon Union.

Michael Carrature sat on his back porch with an eye on the sky. “We just wait now,” he explained. “It starts getting tense.” Tense may not be the perfect word to describe his hobby but it is the ...

On a muddy berm on the edge of a wheat farm about 100 miles south of Baghdad, a dozen flatbed trucks carrying some $14 million in precious cargo slowly line up before dawn. At first light, men with ...