Town authorities said the pigeon had been "on a collision course with vehicles or pedestrians" It was a quiet afternoon in Bocholt in western Germany when a pigeon broke the calm and the speed ...
More than a century after it was dispatched by a German soldier, a message sent via carrier pigeon has been found by chance. In September, a couple out for a stroll in the eastern French Alsace ...
B ERLIN (AP) — An ongoing fight between residents and animal rights activists over whether to cull pigeons in a small German town has led to an uproar — even though a majority of the residents ...
In 1907, Julius Neubronner, a German pharmacist who used the birds to deliver medicine, invented a miniature pigeon camera that the German military used briefly in the war for aerial reconnaissance.