By testing hundreds of pigeon fanciers, researchers hope to predict who is most at risk and improve treatment for a wider family of lung diseases.
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Why pigeons deserve more respect.
The wild rock dove is little understood and largely overlooked by scientists.
The pigeon was chosen because it has remained for a thousand years ‘an impartial and humble observer of London life’.
Philosophers have argued for millennia about whether reality exists inside or outside our heads – but maybe there’s a pragmatic solution.
A scientist who wanted to show pigeons don’t need intellect to navigate was surprised by nuances in his own study findings.
Lockdown wasn’t good news for London’s peregrine falcons.
In nature, one group of bacteria produces magnetic particles to orient themselves along Earth’s magnetic field lines.
Farming and habitat destruction have caused the species to disappear from large areas of Europe.
After Google suggested PigeonRank was at the root of its search function, a group of researchers put a small flock of the birds to a different classification test in real life.
Pink pigeons may make more charismatic subjects for our adoration, but their feral relatives who keep us company in towns and cities are just as deserving.
Not all birds have eyes on the sides of their heads – but even those that do can see straight in front of them.
Was Darwin inspired by the tropical wildlife of his travels to discover natural selection? Actually, pigeons, worms and barnacles were far more prominent in his thinking.
London should be one giant pigeon cemetery, but you rarely see the bodies.
From shapeshifting octopi to acid-firing beetles.
Two recently emerging viruses in domestic pigeons in Australia may pose a significant threat to Australia’s 22 species of native pigeons and doves, many of which have crucial ecosystem roles.
This low-cost way of monitoring air quality is appealing, but there needs to be acknowledgement of their weaknesses as well as strengths.
Genetic analysis has helped untangle the ancestry of an enigmatic extinct bird species. Tim Heupink from Griffith University…
Once the most numerous bird species in North America, passenger pigeons went from numbering in the billions to being extinct in less than a century. Their decline has been mostly blamed on intensive hunting…
Pigeons have extraordinary navigational abilities. Take a pigeon from its loft and let it go somewhere it has never been before and it will, after circling in the sky for while, head home. This remarkable…
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