A military medal which was awarded to a Cumbrian racing pigeon who assisted the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War has been sold at auction and will return to his local area. Tommy the ...

A military medal which was awarded to a Cumbrian racing pigeon who assisted the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War has been sold at auction and will return to his local area.

THE WAIT has been a long one - but now, finally, it seems that the Kilkenny Pigeon Racing Club is to have a home of its ... A scanner automatically records the bird’s arrival back to the loft. ETS ...

they have been selectively bred for their homing ability. These pigeons can find their way back to their lofts from unfamiliar locations with astonishing precision. It’s an ability linked to ...

The Germans, aware that pigeons were being used to relay messages to the Allies, ordered a homing pigeon cull ... at the Brockbank family’s pigeon loft. Paul Laidlaw, the auctioneer, said ...

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They have also been trained to accomplish important missions as carrier and homing pigeons. Escaped domestic pigeons have greatly altered the pure strains of rock pigeons and have increased the ...

Belgium’s pigeon racing community is facing an unprecedented spree of unsolved burglaries, with winter a particularly lucrative time for thieves. (AP Video/Mark Carlson) Canada deploying Black ...

The first long distance pigeon race was in Belgium in 1818 and by 1870 there were 150 racing societies in Belgium and over 10,000 lofts, or homes for the pigeons. The hobby soon spread to Holland ...

But if these sensor-laden pigeons have anything to say about it, the job might get a bit easier. The idea for using pigeons as biotelemetry platforms comes to us from the School of Geography ...

Since retiring, Hayes has constructed five pigeon lofts on his property and Hayes and Robbins own roughly 300 racing pigeons. One of those pigeons, Lucky Seven, flew earlier this month from ...