3 adorable baby peregrine falcons recently hatched on NYS bridge
Three baby peregrine falcons hatched in a nesting box at the South Grand Island Bridge in Western New York about three weeks ago. The NYS Thruway Authority has installed peregrine falcons nesting boxes...
View ArticleFace To Face: The Birdman Of The Bahamas
Metellus Chipman is no stranger to the world of culture and entertainment in The Bahamas. He is a young, talented entrepreneur who has made a name for himself with his flair for our culture. He stands...
View ArticleHere’s hoping the merlins develop a taste for pigeons
Virtually every morning, shortly after the sun comes up, I know they’re awake. Their high pitched ee-ee-ee-ee-ee calls out and, like a stereophonic headphone test, zooms across the sky from one side of...
View ArticlePigeons can understand probabilities – just like primates can
Pigeons seem to have an innate ability to compute probabilities – the first non-primate shown to do so. The skill could help the birds forage for food and avoid predators, suggesting that there are...
View ArticleBreeding of chickpea and pigeon pea gets easier
Breeding high nutritional varieties of chickpea and pigeon pea just got easier. Genomic processes which used to take years are being completed in just a few months with the help of new technology. This...
View ArticleRace Horses In The Sky
A racing pigeon is a registered homing pigeon. These pigeons are dropped off in a location and have to make their way back to their home in Amarillo. Each pigeon has to make it back to their loft and...
View ArticleWhy pigeons are much more intelligent than you might think
Most of us see pigeons pretty much every day, pecking around for food, or perching on buildings. Or just going about their pigeon-y business. You might not think of them as being the smartest creatures...
View ArticlePuttinu Cares celebrates with pigeons and bubbles instead of balloons
The traditional mass release of balloons was missing for the first time ever at the inauguration of the recent 14th edition of the Puttinu Cares Football Marathon at the Marsa Sports Grounds. Following...
View ArticleAnswer Man: Pigeon population on the wane?
Dear Answer Man: I noticed the other day that there are very few pigeons flying around downtown. I used to love watching their superbly synchronized acrobatics, as squadrons of perhaps 100 birds took...
View ArticlePigeon Droppings or Odor Complaint
In New York City you can make reports of unsanitary conditions caused by pigeons, including odor and excessive droppings on: Window ledges Sidewalks Exteriors of commercial and residential properties...
View ArticleCaerphilly man in row over council housing could be ‘forced to cull’ homing...
A man in Caerphilly may be forced to have his homing pigeons culled in a row with Caerphilly Council over housing. Matthew Graves jointly owned the pigeons with his late father which are housed in his...
View ArticlePigeon problem frustrates SW Albuquerque residents
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A pigeon problem in southwest Albuquerque has neighbors frustrated and worried. Andrea Sutphin says the problem is the result of a vacant house. “All I can hear when I’m sleeping...
View ArticleEight tribal youths stripped, detained for hunting pigeons in Gujarat
Forest officials of Unai range in Tapi district detained eight tribal youths and stripped them for allegedly hunting birds like sparrows, mynahs and pigeons on Tuesday. The eight youths, who had to...
View ArticlePigeons and the eyesore railway bridge
SIR – Gemma Demaline (‘Please leave the poor pigeons out of this’, Craven Herald letters, June 14) is clearly right that the rubbish dumped near the railway bridge has indeed its origin in a human not...
View ArticleA shopping mall wanted to evict its pigeons. So it hired a hawk.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — With his auburn feathers, white tail and three-foot wingspan, Remmy, a Harris’s hawk, makes for an impressive — and incongruous — sight at an upscale outdoor shopping mall...
View Article‘Fly By Night’ review
Does a show that consists of LED-lit flocks of pigeons flying through the sky over a dilapidated former golf course in Thamesmead technically count as theatre? Dunno, don’t care, but I’m very happy I...
View ArticleMeet the hawk that keeps pigeons away from malls
A mall in California hired Remmy — a Harris’ hawk — two years ago to hunt down uninvited pigeons. The renovation of the Broadway Plaza mall in Walnut Creek, Calif., attracted dozens of pigeons. “We had...
View ArticleInside the Secret Pigeon Service, an unlikely weapon in the fight against the...
It may sound like the product of an over-imaginative mind, but Operation Columba, a clandestine British bid to gain intelligence from occupied areas, was very real. Between 1941 and 1944, around 16,000...
View ArticleDamaged roof a threat to safety at SK Seri Kepong
FALLING roof tiles in SK Seri Kepong in Kuala Lumpur are putting pupils and staff at risk. The school’s roof is in a such a bad state that the top floor, which has 10 classrooms, has not been used for...
View ArticleCaring hands for Injured Birds
Five years ago. a crow fell into the compound of B K Ajay Kumar Jain’s house. It lay there injured, helpless and terrified. Ajay who saw it was in a flap. For he didn’t know what to do. He wandered...
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