In all his years watching the pigeons who take up residency is in his hometown of Worcester, Bill Hughes says there’s one thing he’s never seen: a chick. And for decades he’s asked anyone willing to ...

John Doc McLean holds one his top racing birds, which he refers to as Silver due to the color of its feathers. Most of the pigeons are simply called by their assigned number; McLean explained that ...

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins. By Ben Crair If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city ...

Homing pigeons are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds require a ‘map’ (to tell them home is south, for example) ...

When a group of pigeons was spotted wearing cowboy hats in Las Vegas in December, it grabbed national attention. Now, it appears that those pigeons have migrated north — either that or the viral story ...