Whether he was training pigeons to serve in World War II or sorting chicks, riding a bucking bronco or calling for bids at a livestock auction, Ed Schmidt's long life has often revolved around animals ...

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD:Yes, it is true; CECOM's early history was for the birds… pigeons to be exact. Pigeons were vital to military communications during war and in peacetime. While pigeons had ...

It sounds like something the Flintstones would do: Send a super-fast message, tie it to a bird’s leg and let go. Amazingly, this works — as long as the bird is a trained homing pigeon. And it’s not ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Homing pigeons -- those birds with the remarkable ability to find their way home over vast distances -- have fascinated city-dwellers for over half-a-century. Decades ago, the ...

Military working dogs get plenty of well-deserved credit for their vital role in sniffing out bombs and patrolling the bases of the U.S. armed forces. But they are far from the only animal to have ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 25, No. 4 (1989), pp. 293-302 (10 pages) By means of training flights (mostly flock releases), two groups of young homing pigeons were made familiar with a ...

Walta described how he recently released some pigeons on a training session from the golf course in Proctor. Instead of flying back to Brandon, one of the pigeons flew 75 miles to Stowe, where it was ...