When Jim and Lorrie Pruett of J & L Wings of White deliver their white doves to funerals, weddings and other events, it’s as if the birds know the script. Upon release, the rock doves — also known as ...

The pigeons which perch on window ledges and line roof ridges of downtown buildings are the subject of many opinions by the humans with whom they share their environment. Many of those opinions are ...

Rare wild pigeons extinct in most of the world have been discovered living in remote parts of Scotland and Ireland. Researchers have found the rock dove, also known as the rock pigeon, living on ...

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 ...

“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 ...

<P> Doves are dumb.<P> At least, they aren't very good at finding their way home.<P> So, when you see "doves" being released at a wedding, funeral or any other ceremony, chances are that you are ...

DNA testing reveals that the wild ancestors of the common domestic and feral pigeons, now extinct in many parts of the world, are still living on islands in Scotland and Ireland. Researchers led by ...