ANDALUSIA, Ill. — It's a sport with an aerial race track. The starting line can be hundreds of miles away from the Quad Cities, and the finish line is home. A group of people raise and train pigeons ...

At the Braintree/Norwood Racing Pigeon Club, enthusiasts train and race birds up to 600 miles, carrying on a time-honored tradition ...

When Hasan Khalil, a 34-year-old from northern Iraq, first saw pigeons flying around the Syrian refugee camp where he spent the majority of his childhood, he never could have imagined that he would ...

Astonishingly, the record price for a racing pigeon is €1.6 million, a seemingly inconceivable price for one bird, but buyers take this very seriously.