The bizarre, beautiful and, at times, almost comical diversity of “fancy pigeons” is captured here by photographer Luisa Maria Stagno. The much maligned pigeons we all know, which are ubiquitous in ...

The black-and-white pigeon with elaborately feathered feet immediately caused a stir when it appeared at Alexandria’s Amtrak station in June. “Why is a penguin here?” ticket agent Octavia Scott says ...

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Your standard street pigeon might seem like a bore, but pigeon fanciers well know that the species as a whole is quite the opposite. Pigeons come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. Some have feathers ...

A red-winged blackbird swooped down and pecked Andrea Whetsell in Lincoln Park Zoo last summer. So perhaps her bird radar is a little twitchier than most. “I literally just saw him!” Whetsell said ...