It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and feral pigeons do largely stay in urban environments because we brought them there. They are highly trainable, and if fed by humans, they ...

Pigeons, long dismissed as flying vermin, appear to be having something of a rebrand. Actor Sarah Paulson helped kick it off ...

Leave them alone: ‘vermin’ such as pigeons and seagulls and rats are just trying to survive in a world where humans are the ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

Bird flu has been rampaging through wildlife and farm animals worldwide. Will it make the long-feared jump to humans?

NEW YORK − There's a giant pigeon in Manhattan. And it's making people everywhere understand more about the much-maligned birds and the flightiness of their biggest critics - humans. The 16-foot ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The highly contagious bird flu that has sent egg prices skyrocketing has also spurred concern among New Yorkers about one of the city's most widely recognized animal inhabitants -- ...

I hate how pigeons get stuff stuck on their feet. I see this problem in New York all the time, and it exists in cities around the world. It does not obsess me—I don’t believe that people should become ...

A “dinosaur” is set to descend on the High Line in Manhattan this October. A 16-foot-tall sculpture of a pigeon, titled “Dinosaur,” has been selected as the next High Line Plinth commission, Friends ...

You’re walking through town, juggling your keys and your phone, and a pigeon just strolls across your path like you’re in its ...

After starting the year with its first known bird flu death, the US expanded its efforts to contain the virus, which enabled ...