It’s no secret that pigeons get a bad rap, especially among New Yorkers. “Rats of the sky” is not a nickname that connotes a great deal of affection. But on the rooftops of Brooklyn’s Bushwick ...

Homing pigeons (Columba livia) have been prized for their navigational abilities for thousands of years. They've served as messengers during war, as a means of long-distance communication, and as ...

In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse Somewhere on the cavernous loft floor, cooing softly from inside a stack of crates, a ...

We call them flying rats now, shooing them away from park benches and cursing when they leave droppings on our cars. These days, the pigeon pecking at discarded French fries outside a subway station ...

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