For Terry Finnerty, every day is for the birds. “I wake up at 4 in the morning, make my coffee and then I come out here,” Finnerty said, his deep voice layered over the gentle undertone of a dozen ...

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 ...