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

Anna’s hummingbirds have evolved to have longer, larger beaks to access backyard feeders in urban areas. It could be a step toward becoming a “commensal” species that lives alongside humans, like ...

Most varieties of C. livia have feet that are coral-reddish, shading to pink. The color makes the feet look possibly sore even when there’s nothing wrong with them. Scientists do not tell us ...

Here we present crystal structures of Columba livia (pigeon) CRY4 that reveal evolutionarily conserved modifications to a sequence of Trp residues (Trp-triad) required for CRY photoreduction. In Cl ...

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 ...

To address this gap, we propose an open-chain kinematic model to simulate the skeletal motion variations of pigeons (Columba livia) in free flight. Kinematic data of pigeon wings were collected during ...