When Philadelphia traced six cases of human virus pneumonia to pigeons (TIME, Jan. 8), Chicago and Buffalo gave their pigeons long, hard looks. Chicago found over 47% of its birds infected; Buffalo ...

Imagine if someone invaded your home, tore you away from your family, drove you hundreds of miles away and then let you go. You don't know where you are, and you're desperate to get back home. You're ...

Imagine being blindfolded and loaded in a car, then dropped nearly four hundred miles from your house in a random field in ...

Pigeon racing, long considered a harmless hobby, fosters $15 million a year in illegal gambling nationwide and kills thousands of birds, an animal rights group charged after a 15-month investigation.

Gray, white and red feathers fly out the back of a red pickup truck onto the following car’s windshield. As the sun rises, Larry Decareaux, a member of the Delta Pigeon Racing Club, drives crates of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The diagnostic evaluation of the glomerular filtration rate by urinary clearance has significant practical limitations in birds because urine ...

Last week two Johns Hopkins surgeons told how a bit of bird lore inspired a useful medical discovery. A Boston colleague, two summers ago, told them that when pigeons drain calcium from their bones to ...

ANTIOCH — Fred Belus casts his gaze skyward at a flock of racing pigeons circling above his backyard. Fit and sleek, they circle a few times before a distinct whistle from Belus brings his flock back ...

Racing thoroughbreds may be the sport of kings, but racing pigeons not long ago was the sport of hundreds of Worcesterites. The sport began in America in the 1870s, bolstered to a significant degree ...

Pigeons in London have a bad reputation. Some people call them flying rats. And many blame them for causing pollution with their droppings. But now the birds are being used to fight another kind of ...