And right up until the invention of the telegraph, in 1844, homing pigeons remained the fastest way to send messages across long distances. The birds can fly for 1,000 miles in one race and can ...

People would raise homing pigeons to race them—they’d have ... ‘We’ll carry on raising our racing pigeons, but we can turn them into RAF racing pigeons.’ There was a military purpose ...

The roots of Champion 704 can be traced back to a remarkable pairing between a gray-white striped male 632—directly descended from Lin Boqi's famed Miracle 32—and a rainy yellow female, the direct ...