Anatolii Vusatyi, a Ukrainian refugee preparing for his new life in Minnesota, needed to know: Did his family’s house have space in the backyard for a small pigeon loft? He already had been separated ...

Today, some countries still maintain pigeon lofts. Britain's Queen Elizabeth keeps 160 mature pigeons and 80 young birds in her Royal loft, according to the official website of the British Monarchy.

An imaginary race track in the sky and a sense of knowing where to fly is all a pigeon needs to find its way back home. Nestled out in rural Andalusia, three tiny yellow houses in Denny and Jeannine ...

The village green in Tackley is picture perfect Oxfordshire, the kind of place which looks as if it has barely changed in centuries let alone the 70 odd years since World War II. But behind its ...