BRISTOL — 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 ...

Ten-year-old Jacob Sewall had seen pigeons only in books before a Maine neighbor named Scott Landry introduced the lad to breeding and racing the oft-misunderstood birds. Every day after school and by ...

MANKATO, Minn. — When Larry Wilmes tells the story about how he became a pigeon fancier, it starts with a long ride from Mankato to Pipestone in the back seat of a 1960s Plymouth. He was just a kid, a ...

“What was that?” Vincent Torre said. His three visitors saw nothing. Torre looked to his right and noticed that his 80 pigeons were all standing still, their heads aimed in the same direction, ...

Along with the Brunner pouters, flying rollers, Chinese owls and Portuguese tumblers, Fred Herr of Willow Street had brought his Mini-Indian fantails to the old fire hall in Manchester, York County.