June 13 is Pigeon Appreciation Day, a quirky yet heartfelt celebration of one of the most under‑loved — and surprisingly heroic — birds in our urban spaces. Sure, sometimes we might call them "sky ...

Over 16 million animals served in World War I, detecting gas, controlling pests, transporting supplies, and boosting morale.

He's one of just two Australian pigeons to win the honour and now is taxidermied and on display at the Australian War Memorial. He said the Australian military believed — incorrectly — that ...

A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance during World War Two has been unveiled at a museum. Tommy, a pigeon from Dalton-in-Furness in Cumbria, was given the Dickin Medal ...

A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance during World War Two has been unveiled at a museum. Tommy, a pigeon from Dalton-in-Furness in Cumbria, was given the Dickin Medal in ...

A MEDAL awarded to a hero pigeon in World War Two is set to sell for £10,000 at auction. Tommy was supposed to be racing from Dorset to Cumbria in 1942 when a storm blew him into Nazi-occupied ...

Cher Ami wasn’t the only heroic pigeon. In World War I, pigeons employed by British and American forces completed more than 10,000 flights. During the Second World War, British citizens donated ...

The company comprised 9 offices and 324 soldiers and provided a pigeon group to each corps and division. By the end of the war the Signal Corps had sent more than 15,000 trained pigeons to the AEF.

Warring armies have relied on homing pigeons as messengers since ancient times, but the birds came into their own as espionage assets in World War II. At the beginning of the war, British ...

Gustav the RAF homing pigeon made a perilous flight for five hours and 16 minutes to relay the first news of the Allied landings on D-Day. (Imperial War Museum) On June 6, 1944, the first report ...

“To honor the important role homing pigeons played in carrying messages during the war, our children will be writing messages or drawing pictures on discs the size of a postage stamp that go on ...