Opening one of his many cages, Michal Trojczak watches proudly as more than 70 dusty-blue pigeons take flight, soaring high above snow-covered fields in eastern Poland.
Opening one of his many cages, Michal Trojczak watches proudly as more than 70 dusty-blue pigeons take flight, soaring high above snow-covered fields in eastern Poland.
“My birds are athletes,” said the 42-year-old pigeon fancier, who inherited his passion for breeding the birds from his father and grandfather.
Poland boasts Europe’s biggest community of homing pigeon breeders and a string of international competition trophies but trails other countries in the breeding of pedigree birds that command a higher value.
As one of those who has decided to do something about that, Trojczak said that he had turned professional after retiring from