The bizarre, beautiful and, at times, almost comical diversity of "fancy pigeons" is captured here ... Even Charles Darwin was known to have bred the birds, and his On the Origin of Species ...

Waikato pigeon fancier Ray Hooker’s interest in his grandmother’s and father’s pigeons, budgies, canaries and cockatiels ended up with him being given the responsibility for them at 11 years old. “My ...

While the fancy pigeons have had the ‘homing instinct’ bred out of them, there is the Buffalo Racing Pigeon Club that is a 300-400 mile race competition. Racers will release the birds in Erie ...

Waikato pigeon fancier Ray Hooker’s interest in his grandmother’s and father’s pigeons, budgies, canaries and cockatiels ended up with him being given the responsibility for them at 11 years old.

This fancy pigeon breed is the result of generations of breeding in India. “Thirty years ago you could import stock to add variety to the gene base until concerns over bird diseases entering the ...