A "very dehydrated and skinny" wood pigeon that was stuck behind a bedroom wall for a week has been rescued. Residents were increasingly concerned about persistent scratching sounds coming from inside ...

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 ...

The average Brit is confident that they could identify seven different bird species just from their appearance – and when it comes to birdsong, the sounds of a blackbird and a Wood pigeon are the most ...

For many endangered species, population decline to the brink of extinction leads to inbreeding, exposing a species to deleterious recessive mutations that severely limit its potential to recover. But ...