The pigeons could find their way home from hundreds of miles away, flying at 50 miles per hour. Van Gaver's birds, which he entered in national races, were among the best in Belgium. For a century, ...

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 ...

A barrage of flapping wings greets visitors to Rafael “Pep” Bachier’s bird coop, an RV-size space tucked beside his bright yellow Roxbury auto repair shop. Close to 40 rainbow-colored cubbies, one for ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bird in the hand is worth $1.9 million in the bank. That’s the sky-high sum that a prized Belgian racing pigeon named New Kim fetched at auction on Sunday, setting a new world record. Two Chinese ...

Sometimes a bird in the hand is worth much, much more than two in the bush. Two Chinese bidders operating under the pseudonyms Super Duper and Hitman drove up the price of a prized Belgian racing ...

HALLE, Belgium — New Kim is worth her weight in gold and then some — actually much, much more. A wealthy Chinese pigeon racing fan put down a world record price of 1.6 million euros, or $1.9 million, ...