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 ...

The 90-minute strolls tour some of the Italian Market’s most established pigeon flocks, examining the rocky relationship ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Pigeons are so ubiquitous, they’ve earned the urban nickname of ...

Crested pigeons communicate without even opening their beaks. The birds have a built-in alarm system that’s set off by fluttering feathers when flying away from danger, researchers report November 9 ...

Hope, Emily Dickinson wrote, is the thing with feathers. Or, in this case, lots of feathers. Lots and lots of feathers. Stan Elkins has an unusual hope. The 43-year-old police officer hopes to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Recently I was standing on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan, talking on my phone near the HOPE sculpture, when a gust of wind picked up what appeared to be at least fifty pigeon feather pieces. They ...

The West Village is going to the birds. A massive mother pigeon and dozens of her realistic-looking squabs have turned a ...

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 ...