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 ...

A solitary oak tree has survived as more than 20,000 trees have been removed to make way for infrastructure for the Sizewell C ...

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 ...

London Euston has welcomed a feathery new member of the station team in Oscar, a Harris hawk. Oscar will visit London Euston once a week over the next few months with his handler at varying times to ...

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 ...