Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pidgey the purse pigeon outside in New York.Photograph: Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian (Photograph: Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian ...

Bird lover calls for pigeons to appear on £20 banknotes as they're 'national treasures' - Tom Charter, 29, believes pigeons' ...

In the past, armies often depended on pigeons to carry messages. When communication lines failed during war, these birds ...

No one has figured out exactly how homing pigeons released hundreds of miles from home know how to get back to their roosts, but they do — and, with the benefit of countless generations of selective ...

Social media users are praising a well-behaved bird as a "legend" for its subway manners — and it's not the first pigeon to ...

MANHATTAN (WABC) -- A rescue group believes a pink pigeon discovered in Manhattan was deliberately dyed and released. A good Samaritan saw the animal on Monday in Madison Square park after noticing ...

Here in Marin, we have four kinds of doves and pigeons. Really, these are all members of the same family — “dove” and “pigeon” are not strictly scientific words and are applied without any perfectly ...

City folks, don't worry. Nobody expects pigeons, more common than manhole covers, will bring the deadly bird flu virus. Pigeons are not immune from the virus. But tests indicate the birds pick it up ...

"Of all the people in the country the Mercure Hotel could have upgraded and put in the room next to the bird netting, with 10 dead birds rotting in it, I was just the worst person." Kevin Newell was ...

Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. WALNUT CREEK — Strolling the sidewalks of Broadway Plaza, you may not notice the absence of one unwelcome pest — pigeons.

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...