LONDON (AP) – Experts say the skeletal remains of a pigeon discovered in the chimney of a house in southern England carried a mysterious, long-forgotten message from World War II. Historians at ...

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, delivered wartime messages to save lives, and have symbolic meaning around the ...

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins. By Ben Crair If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. overall, bag: 6 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 ...

Pigeons in flight are a joy to watch. They can turn on a dime, an instinctual predator avoidance move, and swoop through the air in unison, as if the flock were a single bird. They come in to land in ...