Allen Small was 9 years old when he bought his first pigeon for 25 cents. That was 70 years ago. Now, after spending tens of ...

If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city pigeon. They ...

The pigeon (Columba livia), also called a rock dove, is a stout-bodied bird with a fleshy beak and large wings, with 340 ...

Homing pigeons are smart, reliable and pretty birds, he said. They were used in World War II by both Allied and Axis forces to covertly deliver messages. According to the Smithsonian’s National Air ...

A pigeon lays an egg in a barn owl nest box, and complete anarchy ensues. Despite the title of this video, I was completely ...

Since 1500, about 150 bird species have gone extinct, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. A ...

Early in the next century, opinion shifted. “Pigeons became a nuisance through the 1930’s and 1940’s, nesting and defecating in and on landmarks, statues and sidewalks,” Jerolmack writes in his paper, ...

He has a tried-and-true formula for training the pigeons. After a bird is about 30 days old, he separates it from its mother, as happens in the wild, Fincel said.

Kettering town centre’s four peregrine falcon chicks have spread their wings and successfully flown their precipitous nest ...

A MADCAP footie fan is causing a flap — by staging games between teams of pigeons in Glasgow city centre. Jim MacNee, 61, trained his talented wingers to kick a “ball” that’s a cat toy stuffed ...

Months later, I awoke one morning to an ungodly crowing. In a dressing gown, I opened my front door and stepped into the ...