The earliest homing pigeons were not used for racing, but to carry messages over long distances in a short amount of time.

Organizers of the yearly Labor Day event said about 6,000 live pigeons would be used as targets.

In the Paris Games in 1900, live pigeons were used as moving targets.

In general, the terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used somewhat interchangeably.

It will be a surprise if pigeons are used, as they were in London's last Olympic year - 1948.

Trained pigeons are even used to help locate people lost at sea.

The pigeons are used here as an example for anything that can be put into containers or subdivisions.

Two live pigeons are used to represent the lovers; they have a theme of their own in the music.

And could not these pigeons still be used for spying and the conveying of intelligence?

Trained pigeons are used to identify and eliminate defective pills from drug factory assembly lines.