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 ...

It started with a treasure hunt. The Bakersfield arch, a local landmark that spanned Union Avenue for decades, had just been knocked down by demolition workers. Denise Bopp of Bakersfield decided she ...

She’s had some wild roommates — but not like this! A Brooklyn woman came home from a two-month trip to find a pigeon had moved into her Williamsburg apartment — and laid a couple of eggs in a nest it ...