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 ...

WASHINGTON – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OSWEGO, Ill. -- In the hands of owner Blanca Uribe, a retired racing pigeon named Astrid gets the exercise she needs through "happy flappies," moving her wings while being held because she's paralyzed ...

MANHATTAN (WABC) -- A pink pigeon found in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, NYC, is struggling to recover at Wild Bird Fund on the Upper West Side. A rescue group believes a pink pigeon discovered in ...

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 ...

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.

SALISBURY — One night, Grace Beard and her partner Jim Benton were sitting on their back porch enjoying themselves, when suddenly, Benton noticed something underneath a chair. It turned out to be a ...

Pigeons are one of the things I like to talk about most in the world. I have always loved pigeons, and I've always thought that we as a species have done these sweet birds so dirty it's actually ...