Here in Marin, we have four kinds of doves and pigeons. Really, these are all members of the same family — “dove” and “pigeon” are not strictly scientific words and are applied without any perfectly ...

You’re walking through town, juggling your keys and your phone, and a pigeon just strolls across your path like you’re in its ...

Like Dorothy and Toto from "The Wizard of Oz," a native Caribbean bird may have been whirled up in one of this year's tropical hurricanes and carried ashore onto Galveston Island. The bird was a white ...

“They should have been back by now,” Marsha Fredrichs said on a recent Thursday morning from the tandem glider in her Lakeville yard, her eyes trained on the sky. Marsha was in the perch where she and ...

This was the text I sent to my husband, Richie, after I found a listing for two pigeons on the MSPCA website. Beautiful bright silver and glistening, they were described as “gray rock doves” and ...

The pigeon family includes over 300 species worldwide, ranging from familiar city dwellers to rare tropical birds. Notable members include: Pigeons have compact bodies, short legs, and small heads ...