The call of the Timor green pigeon once echoed around the thick forests of Indonesia. Now, sadly, that wonderful sound is ...

Passenger pigeons, so abundant during the early 19th century that skies darkened with passing flocks, may often have been nothing special in numbers during much of their last million years. DNA from ...

The passenger pigeon is famous for the enormous size of its historical population in North America (estimated at 3 to 5 billion) and for its rapid extinction in the face of mass slaughter by humans.

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 ...

For many endangered species, population decline to the brink of extinction leads to inbreeding, exposing a species to deleterious recessive mutations that severely limit its potential to recover. But ...

A European city is lacing its pigeons with contraceptives as a way to curb the bird's population spike, with the plan once ...

After a chunk of the facade fell off the Alliance Bank parking ramp and landed near the front door of Hunan Garden on Saturday night, Bob Kessler suspected the culprit was pigeon poop. No one was hurt ...

The passenger pigeon is famous for the enormous size of its historical population and for its rapid extinction in the face of mass slaughter by humans. Yet it remains a mystery why the species wasn't ...