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 ...
Chinese tycoons turned pigeon racing into one of the world's most lucrative sports. Then the thefts began. Chapter 1 LIMBURG, Belgium -- The Chinese businessmen arrived in the Belgian countryside ...
RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...
No one has figured out exactly how homing pigeons released hundreds of miles from home know how to get back to their roosts, but they do — and, with the benefit of countless generations of selective ...
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A racing pigeon that disappeared from a race in Oregon only to surface across the Pacific Ocean in Australia is now facing possible death because he's a quarantine risk. Experts believe that the ...
Allison Stine was home on a late afternoon looking over her new pool when she noticed some unexpected visitors. "I looked out the window, and there were pigeons sitting in my pool," Stine said. She ...
Racing pigeons is big business—and doping is common. Now scientists have devised a way to detect doping in the avian athletes. Christopher Intagliata reports. When he worked in a pharmacy in Portugal, ...
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 ...
On a muddy berm on the edge of a wheat farm about 100 miles south of Baghdad, a dozen flatbed trucks carrying some $14 million in precious cargo slowly line up before dawn. At first light, men with ...