A bird's nest says a lot about its maker, to the point that some species have attained considerable fame for their architectural exploits. Weaverbirds get their name from the intricately-woven nests ...

You’re walking through town, juggling your keys and your phone, and a pigeon just strolls across your path like you’re in its ...

I headed out to Wells Harbor this weekend to see what birds were there: Who was back from the south, who was migrating through and whether anyone was changing plumage as their mating season ramps up?

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 ...

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 ...

Two summers ago, a patient looking out his Belgian-hospital window spied in a tree an odd, abandoned magpie nest of plastic and wire. He had, by coincidence, just read a newspaper article about a ...