Hayes, who lives south of Polson, won the 2008 World Cup Fly with his pigeons. The 66-year-old, who has raised pigeons since he was a kid in California, started competing 13 years ago.

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Pigeon breeder champion Frans Bungeneers shows off his winning trophies for pigeon racing in Ranst, Belgium, on Jan. 13, 2025. AP Two pigeons play in their loft in Ranst, Belgium, on Jan. 13, 2025.

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s, billions of these birds were flying over the forests of eastern North America. Yet in just half a century, they’d ...