The birds would take flight, not so much in the order of a flight line on a carrier deck, more the haphazard flight of mountain quail bursting away to the points of the compass with little regard for ...

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 can recognize themselves in mirrors, a sign of advanced intelligence shared with only a few animal species. They can remember hundreds of images for years and accurately distinguish between ...

I can’t tell which birds are male and which are female and, it turns out, neither can they. There is a system, though ...

The slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, ...

A video about the research can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flzGjnJLyS0 (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- If pigeons went to medical school and specialized in ...