A study out of the University of British Columbia looked into how bird's eye view from pigeons in the sky could help enhance ...

You might assume that pigeons keep their eyes still as they fly. New research, however, shows that pigeons engage in slow, ...

In a study published earlier this year, DiGirolamo and his colleagues successfully trained six pigeons to watch short CT scan ...

Tiny backpacks and cameras on homing pigeons revealed their eye movements during flight. These birds made slow, gentle eye ...

Homing pigeons, like other birds, are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds require a 'map' (to tell them home is ...

Once upon a time, carrier pigeons were the fastest and often the only reliable means of communication between outposts, dismounted infantry or dispersed formations and headquarters. These pigeons were ...

Homing pigeons rely on iron-loaded immune cells in their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field, a biological compass system never documented in any other animal. A study published in Science found ...

Homing pigeons, like other birds, are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds require a 'map' (to tell them home is ...