Pigeons

Pigeon Study Unlocks Secret Of Birds' Amazing Homing Skills

| Sarah C. P. Williams | Posted 04.27.2012

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Release a pigeon thousands of kilometers from home, and it'll fly across seas, forests, or deserts to return. It's not sight or smell that allows thi...

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WATCH: Baby Hawk Hatches, Has First Rat Meal

Posted 04.11.2012

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Rats can be a hazardous source of food for hawks in New York City (R.I.P. Lima) but, save for pigeons, it's probably their most plentiful food supply....

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AMAZING PHOTO: Hawk Devours Pigeon On Guy's A/C

Posted 02.27.2012

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Kyle Warren saw something a little out of the ordinary when he looked out his window today. Not cabs rolling by on a cloudy day, not construction work...

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WATCH: Pigeon vs. Escalator

Posted 01.02.2012

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If 2011 was the year that a seagull on an escalator was a metaphor for our lives, then 2012 is the year of the pigeon on an escalator. Gone is the ...

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Pigeons Ace Math Tests

Newser.com | Posted 02.22.2012

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Don't let those blank stares fool you: Pigeons, it seems, are the math nerds of the bird world. Researchers found that the creatures can do more t...

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Pigeons May Be Awkward, But Study Says They Never Forget A Face

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.04.2011

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A word to the wise: Never double-cross a pigeon. The pesky breed of bird characterized by its large body and small head is capable of recognizing a...

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Twain's Feast: America's Vanished Foods

Andrew Beahrs | Posted 05.25.2011

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While traveling across Europe in 1879, Twain wrote a fantasy menu of all his favorite American dishes--some eighty in all--many of which have now vanished from the country's tables.

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The Pigeon Man of Delancey Street

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bobby Wilson Uses Roller Pigeons To Keep Kids Off The Street

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bobby Wilson was released from prison in 2007, after five years of incarceration. A former gang member in Los Angeles (known as Kill Kill), Wilson dec...

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Exotic Birds, Hundreds Of Pigeons Found In Condemned Pueblo Home

7 News | Posted 05.25.2011

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PUEBLO, Colo. -- Dozens of exotic birds are being nursed to health after animal control officers found them in a condemned Pueblo home without heat....

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45 Macaws, Hundreds Of Pigeons Seized From Condemned House

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PUEBLO, Colo. — Dozens of exotic birds are being nursed to health in Colorado after animal control officers found them malnourished in a condemned h...

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Legislation to Ensure Bird Killers Become Jailbirds

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eagles, Migratory Birds, Owls, Crime, Peter DeFazio, Hawks, Pigeons, Animals, Raptors, Falcons, Wildlife, Green News

Club members killed the protected birds of prey by shooting, trapping, poisoning, clubbing, baiting birds into glass panels, and even baiting birds with pigeons rigged with fishing hooks.

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Boy Chases Giant New York Pigeons, May Live To Regret It (PHOTO)

Getty/AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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A small boy chases pigeons on a section of Broadway closed to cars in Times Square on May 26, 2009 in New York. Sections of Broadway from 47th to 42n...

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Pigeon Smuggler Tried To Bring Birds Into Australia Via Pants

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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A man has been caught with two pigeons stuffed in his trousers after he got off a flight from Dubai to Melbourne. Australian customs officials say th...

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