On a warm breezy May afternoon, Cass Witkowski, lifted an 8-day-old homing pigeon from its nest in Shamrock Loft — the name he has given his backyard coop behind his Bristol home — and ever-so gently ...

"The ones that don't come home aren't homing pigeons," Holberg laughed. "It's an instinct. They either have it or they don't." Holberg, 54, started raising pigeons as a child after he discovered a ...

During a meeting last month, a family that raises and races homing pigeons told the Storm Lake City Council they often have 80 birds on their property. Longtime resident Dan Maier said Storm Lake ...