Do much birding in the city, and your thoughts will turn again and again to feral pigeons. As I have pointed out before, we...

Pigeons get no respect. More reviled than perhaps any other species for the mess they make, their copious poop, and their general ubiquity, they...

The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even,...

New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list....

My friend Ruth, who is from Northern England, has a phrase she uses when her dog bursts into fits of irrational exuberance. “Look at...

Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with her. The extinct American pigeon...

Blakiston’s Fish Owl (image by Robert tdc/Wikimedia Commons) Sometimes, on the bird news beat, you find gold at both ends of the rainbow. That would be...

I’ve just seen something that was a) exciting for the birder in me to watch and that b) completely stumped the zoologist in me:...