"When I was little I would follow my dad around feeding the birds and looking after them," explains Harry. The 12-year-old from Malton, North Yorkshire, has become an enthusiastic pigeon fancier, ...

A pigeon fancier who is being evicted from his allotment by Network Rail says it has been "heart-wrenching" to sell his birds. Mick Ready was told in August that the rail provider wanted to close the ...

A man who has been racing pigeons for decades has been forced to give up the sport because of a feather allergy. Jason Dempsey, from Maryport, Cumbria, got into the hobby when he was just eight years ...

During the First World War, Allied birds outperformed their rivals and saved thousands of lives–all thanks to the efforts of one London pigeon fancier Mike Dash The British pigeon known as Crisp VC ...

Opening one of his many cages, Michal Trojczak watches proudly as more than 70 dusty-blue pigeons take flight, soaring high above snow-covered fields in eastern Poland. "My birds are athletes," says ...

A small white pigeon raised its head from between Terry Gier’s fingers. It’s a Valencian Figurita, he said, first bred in Spain centuries ago. Behind him, around 20 other pigeons lounged in cages — ...

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