GREENWICH -- These birds get a bum rap. Thanks to their urban cousins, they get pigeonholed. But watch what you say about pigeons when you're around Bill Desmarais, who, with his wife, Paula, owns ...

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

Charles Darwin once posited that birds might flap their wings to communicate, not just to fly. However, this has always been pretty tricky to test. Now, 150 years later, researchers have discovered ...

Many animals will sound an alarm to alert other members of their group of impending danger. Now, researchers have shown that crested pigeons do this in a surprisingly non-vocal way. One of their main ...

Evolutionary biologist Michael Shapiro and his team from the University of Utah made international headlines in 2013 when they found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be ...

These birds are sitting ducks. Pigeon pirates are spreading their wings on the streets of Manhattan, illegally netting the filthy squabs and then selling them out of state to be killed for sport, ...

A robot that resembles a pigeon and can make tight turns like real birds may point to the future of aerospace engineering – a continuously morphing wing. Understanding exactly how birds fly has always ...

Could pigeons be the model for a new generation of flying robots? That's what the researchers who built PigeonBot, a robotic pigeon with actual feathered wings, seem to be betting. Having birdlike ...

Coordinated behavior is common in a variety of biological systems, such as insect swarms, fish schools and bacterial colonies. But the way information is spread and decisions are made in such systems ...

A man who has been racing pigeons for decades has been forced to give up the sport because of a feather allergy. Jason Dempsey, from Maryport, Cumbria, got into the hobby when he was just eight years ...