Because some lofts are closer to the race site than others, pigeons aren’t judged strictly on their finish times. Winners are determined by calculating how many yards per minute the bird flew from ...

Before the Wi-fi and the Internet, the telephone and the telegraph, the original instant messaging services of society were homing pigeons. After becoming the first domesticated birds, for an ...

Joe Green spends many hours on this roof in Gravesend. It's where he breeds and trains racing pigeons. "You have here what you call sprinters, middle distance and long distance,” says Joe Green ...