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 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...

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 ...

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

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