But Deone Roberts, sport development manager for the Oklahoma-based American Racing Pigeon Union, said on Friday the band was fake. The band number belongs to a blue bar pigeon in the United ...

Joe the pigeon is off the hook in Australia. It turns out the bird — which had been declared a biosecurity risk after officials believed it had arrived from the US — was wearing a fake leg ...

But Deone Roberts, sport development manager for the Oklahoma-based American Racing Pigeon Union, said on Friday the band was fake. The band number belongs to a blue bar pigeon in the United ...

Band-tail pigeons were once much more popular to hunt ... They are a pastel gray-blue in color, and they can be told from their city-dwelling cousins by the long tail with a wide, pale band ...

Larger, with a longer tail than a rock pigeon; blue-gray on the upper parts with contrasting blackish gray flight feathers; a blackish gray tail with a broad, pale gray terminal band. Paler-gray ...

Locals have been left perplexed after seeing the distinctive animal flying around Maidenhead Several sightings of a blue pigeon wandering around a town's streets have baffled residents.

But Deone Roberts, sport development manager for the Oklahoma-based American Racing Pigeon Union, said on Friday the band was fake. The band number belongs to a blue bar pigeon in the United States ...