In a study published earlier this year, DiGirolamo and his colleagues successfully trained six pigeons to watch short CT scan ...

They have been our meat and our messengers, a source of fertilizer and a religious symbol: while pigeons are now mostly ...

Cities aren’t known for their booming biodiversity, but some animals stand out as A+ urban dwellers, and birds may be number one. Now, scientists are starting to understand just how pigeons and other ...

You might assume that pigeons keep their eyes still as they fly. New research, however, shows that pigeons engage in slow, ...

It’s not only pigeons that are happy to be in close proximity with humans. In some places, other animals act just like ...

This is how to keep those noisy birds from waking you up and tearing up your garden ...

Chloé Roubert has been to Paris, London, Montreal, Toronto, Shanghai, Frankfurt, and New York, cultivating herself as a pigeon scholar. “I’m kind of following my pigeons,” she said on a recent morning ...

A study out of the University of British Columbia looked into how bird's eye view from pigeons in the sky could help enhance ...

Video footage of Oakland Firefighters giving oxygen to a pigeon following a car fire has gone viral on social media.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s because ...

Pigeons appear to pose no threat until they start building a nest on a balcony. They create lots of mess with feathers, ...