Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pigeons RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable ...

A racing pigeon was bought at auction last Sunday – and the price tag was nothing to coo at. New Kim, a Belgian-bred racing pigeon, was sold for $1.9 million to a wealthy Chinese bidder under the ...

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t first glance, the animals in three small, white-painted wooden buildings in John Celia's backyard in Silver Spring, Md., look like the street birds that get little respect in cities all over the ...

A pigeon sold for a record-breaking $1.9 million in China in November 2020, making it the most that a racing pigeon has ever been sold for. Messenger pigeons were used across ancient Egypt and Rome, ...

Van Gaver, 38, had been breeding racing pigeons since he was 5. It was a hobby he inherited from his father who inherited it from his great grandfather. The pigeons could find their way home from ...