Chinese boffins claim to have built a solar-powered brain control device to steer a pigeon in flight for about two hours, paving the way for surveillance which sh*ts on you from a great height. A ...

It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and feral pigeons do largely stay in urban environments because we brought them there. They are highly trainable, and if fed by humans, they ...

City-dwellers often complain about pigeons, calling them “rats with wings” and condemning them as noisy, messy, disease-carrying feces machines. But they’re really pretty benign. Much of the problem ...

For thousands of years, humans have trained pigeons to race, deliver messages and “spy behind enemy lines”, said Bloomberg. “What would happen if people could bypass the training and steer their bird ...

ST. PAUL — St. Paul officials are working up a plan to use bird birth control on the downtown’s pigeon population. Last weekend, a 15-by-2-foot chunk of facade fell off a downtown St. Paul parking ...