22
Jan
Photo of the day: Pigeons puff their feathers up while perching on a street sign on Jan. 21 following a heavy weekend snowfall in London’s St. James Park.
22
Jan
Photo of the day: Pigeons puff their feathers up while perching on a street sign on Jan. 21 following a heavy weekend snowfall in London’s St. James Park.
12
Sep
Photo of the day: Pigeons flock to Nepalese child for food
A toddler hands out scraps of food to a large flock of pigeons on Sept. 6 while sitting on the pavement of Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal. Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the famous square was built nearly one thousand years ago as a plaza for the city’s old royal palace.
29
Aug
What’s the ‘Birdmuda Triangle’?
Pigeon aficionados claim everything from military experiments to solar flares to bad weather are influencing the birds’ prized navigational senses.
25
Dec
New research shows pigeons can do math
Pigeons were able to be trained to order groups of objects up to about six, but became a little flighty after that.
06
Jul
Pigeons recognize human faces, despite change of clothes
Untrained pigeons can recognize individual people’s faces and are not fooled by a change of clothes.
17
Feb
Mike Tyson’s first fight was over birds
Legendary boxer reveals how defending his pigeons as a child made him realize that he was a fighter.
17
Oct
Gambling pigeons take risks for a big payoff. The same phenomenon could explain why human gamblers ignore their losses and focus on their rarer wins.
