Pennsylvania is the only state where live pigeons are regularly used for target shooting, animal rights advocates say, and legislation that passed a state House committee Monday could put an end to ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. Ethical hunters eat what they kill. But pigeons shot at live pigeon shoots rot or get consumed by scavengers, the author writes. Ted Williams shooting skeet, ...

An alleged pigeon pirate is ruffling feathers in the concrete jungle. A longtime Brooklyn pet store owner is coming under fire after allegations resurfaced that he kidnaps pigeons from public parks ...

I’m a woodcock hunter. I keep in practice by shooting pigeons. My son tosses them in the air for me. I miss most that fly directly over my head. But when I center one with my 12-gauge Ithaca, it feels ...

While the Fred Coleman Memorial Labor Day Pigeon Shoot has ceased in Hegins, other live bird shoots continue in Pennsylvania. Animal advocate Heidi Prescott, with the Humane Society of the United ...

The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris hosted what was surely the weirdest and most bizarre Olympic event of all time: live pigeon shooting. The winner was Leon de Lunden of Belgium, who bagged 21 of the 300 ...

Video footage showing dozens of pigeons lying dead on the ground and others limping was released Friday by an animal rights group that secretly filmed members of the Alabama Forestry Association ...

SYDNEY -- An Australian traveler was caught with two live pigeons stuffed in his pants following a trip to the Middle East, customs officials said today. The 23-year-old man was searched after ...