Pigeons (nor any other birds) do not get pregnant, they lay and then incubate eggs instead. During the mating season, the male and female pigeons mate. Then a nest is made, eggs are laid and...

Homing pigeons are amazing birds that have been bred for speed and their navigational abilities. A trained homing pigeon will return to its home loft even when released from a very distant location....

Wild Rock Doves have been found in Scotland and the news has set the ornithological and genomic research community alight. It has long been established that all members of the Columbidae family...

Doves and pigeons theoretically can mate but they don't. ..and for good reason; the offspring of pigeons and ringneck doves are sterile. In the wild individuals of a species never mate with...

The partridge pigeon is endemic to parts of Australia and is a medium-sized ground-dwelling species. It is known by other names such as the bare-eyes bronzewing, the bare-eyes partridge bronzewing...

Universally recognized regardless of faith, the modern-day symbolism of pigeons and doves stems from the Christian Bible. We see white doves especially, as being symbols of hope, peace, freedom...