Start them young. Give them a good home so they want to come back. By Malia Wollan “Don’t get too attached,” says Joseph LaQuiere, a 16-year-old youth ambassador for the American Racing Pigeon Union.

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 ...

Homing pigeons are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds require a ‘map’ (to tell them home is south, for example) ...