Despite pleas from pigeon fanciers, the EU isn’t loosening its grip on avian flu rules just yet, keeping racing pigeons ...

“The nature of the homing pigeon is such that when it is removed from its home loft and released, it will try to return thereto,” according to page 1 of the Aug. 1, 1943, U.S. Army Air Forces ...

In-form David had to settle for second place in the West Cumberland Federation this time behind another loft which has been firing on all cylinders, that of Whitehaven’s Mike McGrady who is now flying ...

Pigeon racing began in Belgium in the 1800s and is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons who then return to their loft, or home, over a measured distance.

In short: SA Health says about 100 of its employees have been relocated due to a pigeon infestation. It says employees had been raising the issue over the past six months. What's next? Yorke and ...

In a pigeon coop in a suburban Queensland backyard, you'll find birds, feed, bedding — and two girls. For cousins Hayley Kruger, 12, and Elyn Andreasen, nine, this is their slice of paradise.

RANST, Belgium (AP) — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...

A pigeon perches while others stay in their pigeonholes in a loft in Ranst, Belgium, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP ...

Pigeon Fanciers often believe that these occupy the uppermost perch or boxes but, this is easily disproved; alter the loft furniture arrangement and they take up alternative positional situations.

Territorial Pigeon versus will to win On arrival in the loft the pigeons will each pick a perch at random but will eventually return to it and fight off any intruder. The perch becomes its actual ...

Once installed, the pairs lay eggs in one of each loft’s 76 niches. And this can happen quickly – pigeons lay dozens of eggs and produce up to 20 young per year per pair.