To be competitive, most pigeon breeders focus on one, two or, at most, a handful of breeds. The breed Wilmes focuses on, with help from Roscoe, is the American Giant Homer pigeon.

To be competitive, most pigeon breeders focus on one, two or, at most, a handful of breeds. The breed Wilmes focuses on, with help from Roscoe, is the American Giant Homer pigeon.

To be competitive, most pigeon breeders focus on one, two or, at most, a handful of breeds. The breed Wilmes focuses on, with help from Roscoe, is the American Giant Homer pigeon.

An £8,000 reward has been offered for the successful return of an award-winning homing pigeon used for breeding which was stolen from an aviary in Germany at the weekend.

A third classification of show pigeon is the homer. When compared with their toy and flyer cousins, the homer is more conventional in appearance and color – a soothing blend of soft blues and grays.

Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped. An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee ...

Pigeons figure in Egyptian hieroglyphics and graced supper tables during World War I. Homing pigeons carried critical messages during war, and the U.S. Army maintained a pigeon corps until the 1950s.

Poland boasts Europe’s biggest community of homing pigeon breeders — and a string of international competition trophies — but trails other countries in the breeding of pedigree birds that command a ...

Poland boasts Europe's biggest community of homing pigeon breeders -- and a string of international competition trophies -- but trails other countries in the breeding of pedigree birds that ...