Pigeon racing, a sport on the decline in the United States and Europe, where it was developed, is taking off in Iraq. ... In their rooftop pigeon lofts, the hobbyists are in total control.

Erio Álvarez, now 80, has been a racing pigeon fancier since he was a teenager. ... We use GPS to get the measurements from the release point to the pigeon lofts in everybody’s back yard. … ...

Flanked by the four pigeon lofts at the house of club secretary Claude Caler, ... the point of pigeon racing has remained the same since it first was introduced to the U.S. by Europeans in the 1870s.

Hundreds of North Texans spend several weeks each spring on the pigeon-racing circuit. 2025 NFL DRAFT How did the Dallas Cowboys do? Read our staff's grades here. Skip to Main Content Skip to footer.

He now has 120 birds and three lofts and he breeds and races birds. ... The club has 20 members, and it is part of Southern Arizona Racing Pigeon Combine, which includes three clubs.

Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off alarms at night ...

They are now taking up the challenge of pigeon racing, releasing their specially-trained homing pigeons, ... Tom loves the sport but admits that cleaning out the lofts is not his favourite part ...

Back around 2006 — back when Orlean wrote about the sport in The New Yorker — the American Racing Pigeon Union counted about 800 clubs ... between 100 and 600 miles away from their lofts.

On a muddy berm on the edge of a wheat farm about 100 miles south of Baghdad, a dozen flatbed trucks carrying some $14 million in precious cargo slowly line up before dawn. At first light, men with… ...

RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set ...

Keelie Wright is now a well-known name in pigeon racing circles, having won her first young fancier of the year award at the age of 15. Image source, Keelie Wright Image caption, ...