Yes pigeons do grieve. They are highly intelligent birds who mate for life, they develop strong bonds with their partner and will display signs of distress if their mate or one of their chicks...

No, pigeons don’t have teeth. There is only one exception to this within the pigeon family and that is Samoa's tooth-billed pigeon. Common pigeons don’t have teeth because of the way in...

Traditionally, it was believed that pigeons need to ingest grit to help them with the digestive process. Now many pigeon owners claim that pigeons don’t need to take grit along with their feed...

Yes pigeons do blink, but not as we understand blinking. They have eyelids but they don’t use them to blink. Instead, they have a third eyelid, which is called a ‘nictitating membrane’,...

A male pigeon is called a Cock. Male pigeons are easy to confuse with female pigeons as they are the same size and they also help to incubate eggs, sharing the job with their female partner. If...

Pigeons poop so much because of their very high metabolic rate. Basically, pigeons eat a lot. In actual fact, pigeons eat almost continually. Their stomachs are tiny and don’t have the...