The Liverpool pigeon, which is usually kept in environmentally-controlled conditions in the museum's archives due to its sensitivity to light, has been put on public display for two weeks.

The spotted green pigeon is presumed extinct and is related to the Dodo A 230-year-old pigeon held in a Liverpool museum collection has been found to be unique and related to the long extinct dodo.

Behind closed doors at Liverpool's World Museum resides the last earthly remains of an exotic speckled bird. The spotted green pigeon went extinct in the 1820s due to over-hunting and the ...

The Spotted Green Pigeon by Joseph Smit from Bulletin of Liverpool Museums 1898. World Museum A 230-year-old pigeon in a Liverpool museum is related to the long extinct Dodo, scientists say.

Pigeons are not part of Liverpool's plans for its year as European Capital of Culture in 2008. The city council is mounting a campaign to rid the city of the birds, which it says are being fattened up ...

Liverpool City Council has turned to the Iron Age for a unique solution to a 20th century pest problem in a south L... Liverpool City Council has turned to the Iron Age for a unique solution to a 20th ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A flock of robotic falcons has been dispatched to tackle an influx of obese pigeons who are increasing in number and size thanks to an unnatural diet of fastfood. The mechanical ...

LONDON – You could say it’s a bird of a different feather. The city of Liverpool, plagued by pigeons that pollute the city center with their droppings, is introducing a mechanical falcon that ...

LONDON — Liverpool’s pigeon population has it easy. Feasting on fast food and leaving droppings wherever they please, the fat birds are an embarrassment to a city chosen by the European Union ...