Feathered fortunes: inside Asia’s richest pigeon race

In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse Somewhere on ...
Texarkana Gazette

The pigeon heist: How racing birds became the target of organized crime

They climbed onto his pigeon loft. They cut a hole in the roof and descended inside. A third man waited in a getaway car. A security camera captured footage of the heist. The thieves inspected each ...
The Reporter

Pigeon-raising brings feathered visitors

KEWASKUM, Wis. – From St. Mark’s plaza in Venice, Italy, to rooftop lofts in Matanzas, Cuba, to New York City’s Central Park to countryside farm silos to interstate overpasses, pigeons are an ...
News Tribune

Belgium’s pastime of pigeon racing faces anxiety over crime wave

RANST, Belgium (AP) -- 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 ...