While there is a nonzero chance, it is highly unlikely that a pigeon you encounter will be infected with the virus and even less likely that a human will contract bird flu from it.

Air mail delivery is an essential part of modern life. The history of this unique invention goes back farther than you might ...

With this investment and a suite of initiatives, including the recent passing of the Puppy Farm Bill introducing mandatory regulation of dog breeders, the Government is delivering on its commitment to ...

The Dickin Medal, considered the animal equivalent of the Victoria ... At the time, the German occupying forces had ordered all homing pigeons in the Netherlands to be killed to avoid them being ...

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Tommy the pigeon, from Dalton-in-Furness, was awarded a Dickin Medal, considered the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, after undertaking a perilous journey with a message for British ...

A military medal which was awarded to a Cumbrian racing pigeon who assisted the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War has been sold at auction and will return to his local area.

Passenger Pigeon. Image by James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The story of the passenger pigeon is one that ...

The capacity to use information provided by others to guide behavior is a widespread phenomenon in animal societies. A standard paradigm to test if and/or how animals use and transfer social ...

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Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are three classic examples.