Bilal’s racing pigeons live in a custom-built loft in his backyard. He spends 30-45 minutes daily taking care of them. Bilal's first loft when he started raising racing pigeons in 2014.

People would raise homing pigeons to race them—they’d have a pigeon loft, train the pigeons, and then load up the birds of all the pigeon club members into a backet. They’d drive the baskets ...