Armando was described as the Lewis Hamilton of pigeons. Armando is not your ordinary pigeon. He's been called the Lewis Hamilton of pigeon racing. He's mean, lean and one of pigeon racing's (yes, that ...

The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris hosted what was surely the weirdest and most bizarre Olympic event of all time: live pigeon shooting. The winner was Leon de Lunden of Belgium, who bagged 21 of the 300 ...

The fabulously wealthy have all sorts of bizarre hobbies and obsessions. But while some fat cats enjoy kitesurfing, collecting typewriters, or learning to craft Japanese swords, others have more, ...

While the Fred Coleman Memorial Labor Day Pigeon Shoot has ceased in Hegins, other live bird shoots continue in Pennsylvania. Animal advocate Heidi Prescott, with the Humane Society of the United ...

Of all the discontinued Olympic events, the live pigeon shooting competition from 1900 is steeped in the most lore. Because of the pigeon murder, and all. As the story goes, organizers of the Paris ...

Don’t bet against the high-flying lifestyle of rare bird and sports. A buyer has bid more than $1.4 million for a champion Belgian racing pigeon in a sale, according to the auction house Pipa, which ...

Live pigeon shoots are inhumane contests where live birds are shot at close range by shooters. Seventy percent of the birds are wounded but not killed outright - suffering a slow, painful death from ...