Recently, a friend was asking me for advice on getting a pet, and I launched into my usual full-throated defense of the humble pigeon. Pigeons are largely considered nuisances and pest animals due to ...

Pigeons have a terrible reputation among New Yorkers, but they can make surprisingly good pets. By Ronda Kaysen Q: I live in a Little Italy rental building. My neighbor has taken in a city pigeon as a ...

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins. By Ben Crair If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city ...