Yeah - winged rats, sky rodents. Charles Walcott of Cornell wishes we'd give pigeons a little more respect. CHARLES WALCOTT: You can take one of these pigeons a thousand miles or more in any direction ...

Scientists have long been baffled by pigeons’ ability to find their way back home from hundreds of miles away. And despite decades of study and research that have shown what the birds do, they still ...

BELGRADE (AP) -- Hale Misa Smetana was named by a pigeon -- the first homing pigeon that arrived first during a race last June, shortly after Misa (pronounced Meesha) was born.

HEADLAND ‒ As the group of homing pigeons circled the sky above, John Ross Helms whistled ‒ the signal that usually brings the birds back to their pen because they associate it with eating.