An Indian fantail -- one of 350 rock pigeon breeds -- displays a type of head crest known as a peak crest. Researchers from the University of Utah and from China, Denmark and Texas identified a single ...

10 February 2008Some of the best breeds showcased at recent pigeon championship at QAQSharjah: Qanat Al Qasba, Sharjah's premier tourist and family destination, saw a full house at the Fantail Pigeon ...

The year was 1926. A shipment of four pythons was on its way to the San Diego Zoo in California from India. The journey over high seas lasted many days and to ensure the reptiles didn't go hungry, ...

Along with the Brunner pouters, flying rollers, Chinese owls and Portuguese tumblers, Fred Herr of Willow Street had brought his Mini-Indian fantails to the old fire hall in Manchester, York County.

BETHEL -- You'll probably never see the kind of pigeons that Malcolm Ford breeds sitting on a statue. But if you did, you'd immediately notice something very different about them. A small head that ...

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BETHEL -- Malcolm Ford remembers bonding with his stepfather in his native England through the hobby of showing birds, specifically fantail pigeons. Now, 45 years later, Ford is reliving those lasting ...

Dubai: The fifth Fantail Pigeon Competition in the UAE will be held at Qanat Al Qasba, Sharjah, on February 9. The event brings together some of the best breed of pigeons from across the country to ...

Raising and showing selectively bred birds is a world away from pigeons’ unjust image of ‘rats with wings’ – and it’s a hobby that helps forge lifelong friendships Don’t feed the pigeons – unless you ...