After darkening the skies of North America for 20,000 years, the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. It changed our ...

Back in 2021, a pigeon on a flight from Newark to Greece caused an hour delay as flight crew tried to get the bird off the aircraft. Abigail is one of thousands of people in her line of work in ...

Journeys of people who have settled in a town have been championed in artworks of a bird that can always find its way home. The Hometown Birds project, using the symbol of a pigeon, encouraged ...

On 1 September 1914, a passenger pigeon called Martha died at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. She was the last known member of her species. Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons ...