Inside a $1.2M purse pigeon race #shorts
60 Minutes·2026-05-01 16:45
We went to a one loft race in Portugal to see how it works. Months earlier, fanciers shipped their best young prospects to the race loft so the pigeons could learn to recognize it as their home. The cost to enter a bird is about $500.The more pigeons, the larger the pot of prize money. Season opener. All racing pigeons are identified by leg bands.Just before the race, each of the 3,300 birds is scanned into a database and then driven 300 miles away to be released. The first pigeon to find their way back int ...