Ten-year-old Jacob Sewall had seen pigeons only in books before a Maine neighbor named Scott Landry introduced the lad to breeding and racing the oft-misunderstood birds. Every day after school ...

Cubans are increasingly breeding pigeons as a form of escape, as most stay indoors due to the country's worst coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began in March last year.

5 Pigeon fancier Freddy Moreno takes care of pigeons with a friend at his balcony in Havana, Cuba on May 25, 2021. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini Yet others simply have an affinity with the cooing birds.

Charles Darwin bred pigeons, and used them to learn more about the inheritance of different characteristics. For pigeons, beak size is one of those characteristics. There are 350 pigeon breeds or more ...