Research & Articles | The American Pigeon Museum

Why the passenger pigeon went extinct and whether it can and should be brought back.

Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons; trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a few...

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Adele Renault (1988) is a painter, who does realistic portraits of overlooked subject matter, working in scale from intimate canvasses to...

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Birds identify objects in the same way as infants learning words. University of Iowa scientists taught pigeons to use touchscreen...

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Usually at this time of year, right as the weather starts getting cold, the majority of birds that Ashley Dietrich is concerned about are...

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A young autistic Dromore boy has been ruffling a few feathers with his new hobby as a pigeon fancier. Jack Delaney is winging his way to...

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In fierce fighting and deep in enemy territory, American pigeons carried life-or-death messages that radio and field phones could not....

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