High ceilings and perfectly placed cubbies house the gray, white and red pigeons. One bird has a luminescent streak of green. Neinaber, like many pigeon racers, breeds his own birds.

Pigeon fanciers have been leveraging the birds’ instinctive ways into the sport of pigeon racing since the 1800s and have been breeding hundreds of generations of birds.

Pigeon racing. Many of the birds Jicha fosters are former racing pigeons, ... She jokes that she sometimes asks him if he would have imagined having a house full of pigeons 20 years ago.

During the races, pigeons fly anywhere from 100 to 600 miles before returning to their home base. With such immense physical feats required of the birds, Morgan trains them multiple times per week.

The pigeons were so valuable to sailors that armed guards conducted nightly patrols of the grounds of Naval Air Station Anacostia, the largest pigeon school in the country with some 300 birds.

MERRICK, Long Island (WABC) -- Officials found a house overrun by birds on Long Island Thursday during a raid. They believe there were 350 pigeons uncaged and flying around inside the home on ...