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Mum fined £150 for feeding sausage roll to pigeon
Elisa Menendez – Wednesday 19 Jun 2019 9:56 PM A woman has been fined £150 by her local council for feeding a piece of sausage roll to a pigeon. Sally-Ann Fricker fed the bird while shopping with her...
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Scientists have recruited pigeons to help stop climate change
Pigeons are helping researchers gather data on climate change. (University of Birmingham/Cover Images)Jeff Parsons – Monday 25 Mar 2019 2:15 pm Pigeons have become the latest recruits in helping...
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Stag bites off dead pigeon’s head outside Wetherspoons
Jimmy Nsubuga – Tuesday 11 Jun 2019 11:26 am Shocked members of the public witnessed a man decapitating a dead pigeon with his teeth outside a Wetherspoons. The man was on a stag do when he bit the...
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‘Attack of the pigeon!’: Video shows man throwing dead bird during street fight
No rest for the dead! By Josh K. Elliott – Viral/Trends Global News Video of a late-night fistfight in the United Kingdom shows one combatant flipping the other the bird – then throwing an actual...
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Chicago: Pigeon Hitches A Ride On The Brown Line
CHICAGO (CBS) — Sometimes it’s faster to take the train than fly to where you’re going, even if you’re a bird. A pigeon perched on a seat on the Brown Line during the morning rush on Monday. Other...
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Birds & Wildlife not welcome at Windsor Airport
Phil Mailloux fires a noise maker in the air at the Windsor Airport in Windsor on Friday, September 21, 2012. Mailoux is part of the team that keeps the airport free of potentially deadly pests. (TYLER...
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Pigeons Huddle for Warmth At “L” Stops
Dozens of birds crowding the station CHICAGO (CBS) — Commuters are calling it everything from cute to disgusting – dozens of pigeons warming themselves under the heating lamps at Loop ‘L’ stops. As...
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CTA Orders Cleaning of Garage Covered in Pigeon Poop
CTA’s Kiss ‘n Ride parking garage at the Cumberland Blue Line station is covered in pigeon droppings. The CTA has ordered the company that runs the garage to clean it up and install devices to keep...
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Oak Park Village To Euthanize Pigeons?
Citizens have had enough of Pigeon poop in their park. OAK PARK, Ill. (CBS) — Oak Park is set to move ahead with discussion of euthanizing pigeons at a village board meeting Monday. As WBBM Newsradio’s...
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Uptown Alderman to Make Feed Pigeons Criminal
Feeding pigeons swarm to pick up chips outside Wilson transit stop CHICAGO (CBS) — Pigeons; they’re tolerated at best, hated at worst. Now, one Chicago alderman wants to make it a crime to feed...
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Windsor city issues warning to clean up rooftop swamp
The stagnant rooftop swamp on top of a vacant commercial building on Ouellette Avenue continues to fester, attracting wildlife and emitting a wicked stench that has frustrated neighbours who’ve put up...
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Clients drop $180 for bird-poop facials at New York City spa
Bird feces being rubbed on a woman’s face. NEW YORK — Bird poop for beauty? That’s what goes into facials at a luxury spa where the traditional Japanese treatment using imported Asian nightingale...
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Inside the fascinating and sometimes brutal world of pigeon racing in China
By Karoline Kan, CNN • 6th April 2019 Every day during the racing season, 55-year-old Zhang Yajun wakes at 4 a.m. and carefully loads bamboo cages containing his 76 cherished racing pigeons into a...
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Pigeons to be banished for threatening tourists in Spanish town of Cadiz
Cadiz Cathedral in Spain is facing a pigeon infestation. Laura Perez Maestro, CNN • Updated 13th December 2018 (CNN) — It’s always nice to share a meal with the locals on vacation, except when the...
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Dozens of ‘decorated’ pigeons found dead in New Zealand
Pigeons and other birds have been found around the New Zealand capital of Wellington with Christmas decorations attached. Originally By Lisa Jane Harding, CNN (CNN) Injured and dead pigeons covered...
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CTA, officials up rally against a determined pigeon feeder at Northwest Side...
By MARY WISNIEWSKI – Chicago Tribune State Rep. Jaime Andrade has been fighting a losing battle to clean up the mess made by pigeons at the CTA’s Irving Park Blue Line station on the city’s Northwest...
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Durham Teenagers ‘stamp on pigeon’s head’ as horrified shoppers look on
Shoppers who witnessed a gang of teenagers stamp on a fatally injured pigeon have been urged to report the incident to police. The RSPCA says a crime may have been committed after eight youths were...
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Lawmaker in Chicago gets pooed on by a pigeon while complaining about pigeon poo
Chicago has had a long and storied battle against pesky pigeons on their transit systems. Speaking to CBS Chicago, state Rep. Jaime Andrade was in mid-flow discussing the problem of pigeons pooping on...
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Twelve pigeons stolen from Buxton loft
Liam Barnes – BBC News Police are appealing for information after 12 pigeons were stolen from lofts in Buxton. The lofts, on Lightwood Road, were broken into between 16 September and 17 September,...
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CIA unveils Cold War spy-pigeon missions
By Gordon Corera The CIA has declassified details of its secret Cold War spy-pigeon missions. The files reveal how pigeons were trained for clandestine missions photographing sensitive sites inside...
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