The pigeon (Columba livia), also called a rock dove, is a stout-bodied bird with a fleshy beak and large wings. There are ...

iStock. Though most of this list focuses on the rock pigeon, there are 308 living species of pigeons and doves. Together, they make up an order of birds known as the columbiformes. The extinct ...

Life Fancy pigeons flaunt their feathers in this striking photo series. Photographer Luisa Maria Stagno is on a mission to document the most unusual pigeons out there, from a Danish Suabian to a ...

Homing pigeons (Columba livia) have been prized for their navigational abilities for thousands of years. They've served as messengers during war, as a means of long-distance communication, and as ...

THE PIGEONS MOST Australians are familiar with are the rock doves (Columba livia), commonly referred to as “feral pigeons”, that swamp our cities in huge numbers, eating anything and everything they ...

Many urban pigeons (Columba livia domestica) look scruffy, grubby and peck at scraps on the ground, earning them unflattering nicknames like "flying rats" and "rats of the sky".

Pigeons, rats and other subjects of conditioning experiments in the behaviourism tradition of ethology have been somewhat neglected in terms of animal welfare. They have typically been housed in small ...