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

Columbidae – and the names “pigeon” and “dove” have little relevance. Those we call “pigeons” are generally larger than those ...

When Jim and Lorrie Pruett of J & L Wings of White deliver their white doves to funerals, weddings and other events, it’s as if the birds know the script. Upon release, the rock doves — also known as ...

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 ...

DNA testing reveals that the wild ancestors of the common domestic and feral pigeons, now extinct in many parts of the world, are still living on islands in Scotland and Ireland. Researchers led by ...

Here in Marin, we have four kinds of doves and pigeons. Really, these are all members of the same family — “dove” and “pigeon” are not strictly scientific words and are applied without any perfectly ...

Standing in the brush along an abandoned rock quarry, I scanned the blue, cloud-free September sky for flying birds. My prey? Band-tail pigeons, the West Coast’s cousin to the extinct passenger pigeon ...

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 ...