LIMBURG, Belgium — The Chinese businessmen arrived in the Belgian countryside driving luxury sports cars, ferrying translators and bags of cash. When they parked in front of Tom Van Gaver’s small ...

Restrictions on pigeon feeding in India’s largest city prompted a backlash from a religious community that believes in nonviolence against all creatures. By Suhasini Raj and Yan Zhuang Pigeons are ...

Thousands of people gathered on the High Line on Saturday for Pigeon Fest, inspired by an artist’s sculpture and an appreciation for the city’s most resilient birds. Alexandra Owensby took home second ...

May 22 (UPI) --A New York park is celebrating one of the city's most iconic animals next month with Pigeon Fest, a day-long event featuring art exhibitions, science demonstrations and the city's first ...

A pigeon has created a special bond with the people who saved him. Ashley Hood and her family never expected that rescuing a seemingly sick pigeon would lead to him becoming part of their brood. One ...

I had always felt ambivalent towards pigeons. The birds are everywhere in London, where I live, and that made them fade into the background for me. I didn’t hate them, but neither did I take any ...

Meet "Dinosaur," the 17 foot tall, two-ton aluminum pigeon. For the next year-and-a-half, its perch will be New York City's High Line. "Pigeons and birds, as we know, are what remains of dinosaurs," ...

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 ...

It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and feral pigeons do largely stay in urban environments because we brought them there. They are highly trainable, and if fed by humans, they ...

Atoosa Samani started learning about pigeon genetics at a young age. She grew up surrounded by pet pigeons in Isfahan, a city in central Iran famed for its pigeon towers. Her favorite was an all-white ...

NEW YORK -- Several factors contributed to Flaco the owl's death last month, according to his necropsy. The Central Park Zoo released the results of the report Monday. "In addition to the traumatic ...

NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — Several factors contributed to Flaco the owl’s death last month, according to his necropsy. The Central Park Zoo released the results of the report Monday. “In addition to the ...