You’re walking through town, juggling your keys and your phone, and a pigeon just strolls across your path like you’re in its way. Neck shining green and purple. Head bobbing. Totally unbothered by ...

Male pigeons react differentially to altered facial features of female pigeons. 10.1163/000579510X491090. Scarf D, Stuart M, Johnston M, Colombo M. Visual response properties of neurons in four areas ...

Corvids get most of the credit, but pigeons are in the same club as one of the smartest birds in the world. They can ...

While pigeons and doves are the same species, many people consider the former little more than rats with wings. They roost in cities, gather around anyone with food, and poop on everything. But not ...

Although passenger pigeons were the victims of human hunters, we still don’t understand precisely how a species can decline from billions to none within a period of fifty years. Can genetics give us ...

Pigeon facts So let us dust off a few actual pigeon facts. The "chunky," usually gray rock pigeon has pointed wings, a black bill with white base, red eyes and eye rings, and feet the color of a ...

The British pigeon known as Crisp VC brought back news of the sinking of an armed trawler by a German U boat and the heroic death of her captain, Thomas Crisp, who was posthumously awarded the ...