There and back again
Over the last several years, Liz Beukema and her 15-year-old son Garrett have spent many early mornings together in their backyard, on the road in their family car and at ice cream shops throughout...
View ArticleDr. Julius Neubronner’s fantastic flying cameras
The first aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by Frenchman Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, also known by his alias Nadar, from a tethered gas balloon suspended over Paris. While the images captured on this...
View ArticleWaikato fanciers face off for bird bragging rights
In between the serious task of judging Waikato’s best pigeons, Kelly Bray found time to rewrite history. “The Bible talks about Noah throwing out a dove, but a dove would have buggered off,” Bray...
View ArticleHow a row about a cat and a pigeon ended with a threat to burn someone’s...
A 41-year-old garage owner threatened to burn his next door neighbour’s house down after he believed their cat had attacked one of his beloved racing pigeons, a court heard. Behzad Shuwani used racist...
View ArticleChick of the biggest pigeon species in the world has just hatched at Chester Zoo
A tiny, blue chick from the biggest species of pigeon in the world has just hatched at Chester Zoo. The Victoria crowned pigeon baby is already walking alongside its blue-and-purple mother in its...
View ArticleNo more pigeon waste
The pigeon waste situation on West 231st Street and Broadway is not only unsightly, it could be a health hazard. It’s either someone invents diapers for pigeons, or those responsible for cleaning up...
View ArticleNetting to be re-installed under Clemens Street Bridge in bid to stop pigeons
PIGEONS who have made themselves at home under Clemens Street railway bridge will be flying the nest if campaigners get their way. The bridge was previously fitted with netting but birds kept becoming...
View ArticleLETTER: Pigeons, home and roost?
Last week’s editorial correctly states that, unlike the national tabloids, the Sussex Express has preserved an even-handed approach throughout these turbulent times. However I must take issue with the...
View ArticleHow a Teesside pigeon called Brexit honoured First Word War heroes
Thousands of Teesside racing pigeons took flight for an unusual commemoration of the end of the First World War . During the 1914-18 conflict, pigeons were used to fly crucial messages back home from...
View ArticlePlan allowing homing pigeon breeders to keep the birds in Chicago lofts...
Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped. An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee Monday. The...
View ArticlePigeon family takes up residence in Hochelaga traffic light
A family of pigeons have been living inside a traffic light in the east end of Montreal since at least early July. The borough mayor of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve says there are no plans to remove...
View ArticleMeet the hero carrier pigeon that saved US troops during a WWI battle 100...
In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff’s office, there is a pigeon. Walking the corridors, the lifelike pigeon stands out among the cases of military history...
View ArticleBird rescue trying to find person who’s poisoning pigeons in Union County
The Carolina Waterfowl Rescue is trying to figure out who is poisoning pigeons at a shopping center in Union County. The organization posted a video on Facebook showing the disturbing effects on one of...
View ArticleIn this southern Indiana backyard, pigeons carry legacy
NEW ALBANY, Indiana — When Stephen Price agreed to let one of his tenants bring home a gaggle of pigeons, he didn’t know what he was getting himself into. To be fair, the tenant, Robert “Painter Bob”...
View ArticleFight the night: why is it that babies hate sleeping so much?
The psychologist BF Skinner put pigeons in a box to study their responses to stimuli. One cohort were given grain if they pecked a button and they quickly worked out the mechanism by which they were...
View Article‘At least 10’ pigeons struck aircraft in last month’s incident
At least 10 pigeons hit an Air Malta plane in a bird strike incident last month which delayed the fight but did not injure anyone. Malta International Airport had reported at the time that a bird hit...
View ArticleReports of injured banded birds following pigeon race
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – The Richmond Wildlife Center urges the public to be on the lookout for banded pigeons that may be injured while trying to fly back home. According to the organization’s Facebook...
View ArticleHoming pigeons fly across America to raise funds for veterans
The Lafayette Racing Pigeon Club will participate in a cross country relay race helping to raise funds for Wounded Warriors. Over a 62 day period homing pigeons will fly a 4,000 mile relay race across...
View ArticlePigeon must awake, there’s danger ahead
We humans are like the pigeon, which sits on a high-tension wire, thinking it is safe. It believes it is the lucky one and no harm will come to it. In how we perceive the environment, its use,...
View ArticleControlling pigeon population by poisoning them is cruel
Poisoning pigeons as a way to control their population is cruel and sickening, and should be stopped at once. Usually, pest controllers feed the birds bread laced with poison. A short while later,...
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