Flamingo, the bright pink pigeon that went viral last week after it was found malnourished in a New York City park, has died, likely because of the dye that was used to coat it, said the Wild Bird ...
A wildlife rescue team is urging the public not to use human hair dye on wild birds (or any animal, for that matter) after the discovery of a pink-colored pigeon in New York City on Monday. According ...
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- Beth Flanders gathers a pure-bred white-colored pigeon into her hands and gently strokes its feathers. "We named her Peep because she would sit behind her sibling, Tiger, and would ...
This was bird-brained idea. A pink-colored pigeon was rescued from a Manhattan park by a local bird lover and a wildlife group said the bird was “deliberately dyed” for a gender reveal or wedding. The ...
On Monday a Good Samaritan rescued a pink-colored pigeon from Manhattan's Madison Square Park. The bird lover transported the king pigeon - a domestic breed - to the Wild Bird fund, a nonprofit ...
In recent weeks, U.K. residents have been baffled by the mysterious appearance of pink pigeons in towns across Britain. The bizarrely color birds — ranging in hue from a delicate blush to a full-on ...
A University of Texas at Arlington team exploring pigeons as a model for vertebrate evolution has uncovered that mutations and interactions among just three genes create a wide variety of color ...
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Mutations in key genes determine feather color in domestic pigeons, and the same genes control pigmentation of human skin, U.S. researchers say. "Mutations in these ...