Beyond the rooftops, the heartbeat of the hobby is also felt in the weekly pigeon market in Bahri city, north of Khartoum. Cages line the ground and crowd onto small carts -- homing pigeons displayed ...

When Rachael Carreiro releases her “white doves” at funerals, the tears pour down people’s faces. The birds symbolise love and peace in several religions so many people find it moving to see them in ...

Swifts practically live in the sky. These birds skip land for nearly a year, doing everything midair, from eating to sleeping ...

Huge crowds turned out in Hiroshima Saturday on the anniversary of America’s nuclear attack in World War II. A bell rang at 8:15 a.m., exactly 60 years after the bombing, and 1,000 doves were released ...