Studying wild rock doves gives us a rare chance to establish how one of science’s model species lives in nature. This may ...

Rare wild pigeons extinct in most of the world have been discovered living in remote parts of Scotland and Ireland. Researchers have found colonies of Rock Doves - also known as rock pigeons - on ...

Through DNA testing, a research team from Oxford University’s Department of Biology has discovered rare colonies of Rock Doves — ancestors of the domestic and feral pigeon — on islands in Ireland and ...

Rare wild pigeons extinct in most of the world have been discovered living in remote parts of Scotland and Ireland. Researchers have found the rock dove, also known as the rock pigeon, living on ...

High above the North Sea, on English cliffs weathered by surf and salt wind, nests a wild, free bird called the rock dove. High atop the nearest American statue, perched on Andrew Jackson’s drawn ...

The majority of the locals believe that hardly any birds exist in the Maltese islands; except for sparrows and pigeons. In reality this is not the case, because just over 450 species of birds have ...

Tiny populations of the birds which are the ancestors of common domestic and feral pigeons have been found living on remote Scottish and Irish islands – places which pigeons have not been able to ...

A look at the science behind pigeons. A look at the science behind pigeons. Be Smart is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android ...

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The pigeons which perch on window ledges and line roof ridges of downtown buildings are the subject of many opinions by the humans with whom they share their environment. Many of those opinions are ...

Rebecca Calisi, assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, is working with pigeons (also known as rock doves) to study physiological differences between males and ...

Long before there were urban plazas and parks filled with pigeons all across the world, pigeon ancestors and Neanderthals were hanging out together in rocky caves on the island of Gibraltar. In a ...