Since my first visit to Egypt in 2011, my NPR colleague Kimberly Adams has been insisting that I try stuffed pigeon. It's a delicacy in Egypt. I finally took her advice the other night at a Cairo ...

[Jeff Geerling]’s latest project is for the birds — literally. Even though he has a brand new high-speed fiber optic internet connection, online backups of YouTube video projects still take hours. He ...

When Philadelphia traced six cases of human virus pneumonia to pigeons (TIME, Jan. 8), Chicago and Buffalo gave their pigeons long, hard looks. Chicago found over 47% of its birds infected; Buffalo ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Last week two Johns Hopkins surgeons told how a bit of bird lore inspired a useful medical discovery. A Boston colleague, two summers ago, told them that when pigeons drain calcium from their bones to ...

New Yorkers may not all agree on which urban critter is the more fitting symbol for their city — the resilient rat, the nuke-proof cockroach or the scrappy pigeon — but the latter may soon have an ...

Things are looking up for the pigeon, the once-noble bird with a PR problem. Pigeons have got their own Web site. Pigeons have got their own rescue group. Pigeons have got their own benefactress, a ...

Birds, be careful: Loitering at an Indian port with a microchip on your leg can make people nervous and get you locked up. By Mujib Mashal and Hari Kumar Reporting from New Delhi Suspicion of foreign ...

Gustav the RAF homing pigeon made a perilous flight for five hours and 16 minutes to relay the first news of the Allied landings on D-Day. (Imperial War Museum) On June 6, 1944, the first report of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Renal disease is a major cause of illness in captive and wild avian species. Current renal disease markers (e.g., uric acid, blood urea ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The diagnostic evaluation of the glomerular filtration rate by urinary clearance has significant practical limitations in birds because urine ...