There’s this viral app called Carrier Pidge, and with all due respect to its creator, it’s just a paint job on a kind of app ...

A new theory claims to have solved the long-standing conundrum of how homing pigeons use Earth's magnetic field to find their way. The hypothesis: pigeon livers act like compasses. Biologists have ...

In a museum collection in Washington, D.C., sits an unusual veteran of the First and Second World Wars. Kaiser was a German ...

The mystery of how homing pigeons are able to navigate home may have been solved. The birds use low-frequency sound waves to make a mental map of their location, new research suggests. The findings, ...

Homing pigeons are bred for their navigation skills. They find their way along a mental map of signs and smells, using the sun and the Earth’s geomagnetic field as a biological compass to find their ...