Paddy the Pigeon, who was hatched in Co Antrim, was the fastest of the flock when he was released on June 6, 1944, to deliver the news of the successful D-Day landings back to England.

A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance during World War Two has been unveiled at a museum. Tommy, a pigeon from Dalton-in-Furness in Cumbria, was given the Dickin Medal ...

As Siegfried Farnon points out to Tristan in All Creatures Great and Small’s Season 5 finale, pigeons have a proud history in war, as evidenced by World War I hero Cher Ami, the pigeon who ...