BLACKPOOL, England (AP) — Once a major tourist destination for Britons heading to the beach, the seaside town of Blackpool now draws a different kind of visitor. Every January, thousands of pigeon ...

Yeah - winged rats, sky rodents. Charles Walcott of Cornell wishes we'd give pigeons a little more respect. CHARLES WALCOTT: You can take one of these pigeons a thousand miles or more in any direction ...

A British army bus-mounted mobile pigeon loft on active service during the First World War. Public Domain Credit for the development of a British service that rivaled the best that the continent could ...

The legendary dodo, a flightless bird extinct for more than 300 years, has yielded its DNA for the first time, and scientists say it is related to pigeons in Southeast Asia and even, though more ...

When World War II broke out, Britain was gripped by “Fifth Column Neurosis,” an almost universal belief that the country was riddled with enemy spies, not all of them human. Ben MacIntyre writes in ...

A homing pigeon named Bob took more than a few wrong turns last month, and now an animal shelter is working to get him home. Monroe County Animal Shelter shared on Facebook that they are trying to ...

Guernsey Ports said requests to release large numbers of pigeons had increased since 2022 The largescale release of racing pigeons can no longer take place in Guernsey due to increased risks for air ...

They have eavesdropped on the enemy for decades, tracking messages from Hitler's high command and the Soviet KGB and on to the modern world of satellites and cyberspace. But a lowly carrier pigeon ...

A WWII military carrier pigeon perished on its way back to His Majesty’s secret pigeon coop. Now, 70 years later, British intelligence is trying to decipher a coded message found attached to the ...

The pigeon race is being resurrected after a 90 year hiatus. LONDON -- The two houses of the British Parliament are once again at war with each other. But this time they are not battling it out in the ...

The racing pigeons went missing last month in Cambridgeshire, England, and watchers were stumped. Race officials think they might have been confused by wind or solar activity. Yeah - winged rats, sky ...