A collage of four breeds of pigeons shows two with scaled feet (top) and two with feathered feet, known as muffs (bottom). Top left is a racing homer. Top right is an English Pouter. Bottom left is an ...

The rock pigeon's funky hairdos have been pinned to a single gene mutation that signals head and neck feathers to grow up rather than down in a tamer fashion, report researchers who have just decoded ...

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 ...