Pigeons: Members of the bird family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Flamingo, the pink pigeon that made headlines for its brightly colored feathers, has died. The Wild Bird Fund said Tuesday that he died from inhaling the toxins of dye. The rescue ...

CORRECTION: A column in the Bay Area section Aug. 3 about pigeon problems at Central Contra Costa Sanitary District's Pacheco plant incorrectly stated that Hot Foot cream "creates a burning sensation ...

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 ...

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, ...