A female pigeon is called a Hen. Female pigeons who are less than a year old are Young Hens, female pigeons over one-year-old are Old Hens. Female pigeons are very easy to confuse with...
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The pigeons we know today come from Rock Doves that were domesticated way back in the past. It is believed that these feral doves originated along the northern coast of Africa and the coastal...
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...
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...
During WW1, the telephone and telegraph machines that we take for granted today weren’t reliable enough to be counted on to carry important information to the troops and back. For that reason,...
Many thousands of pigeons lost their lives in WW2. Carrier pigeons were widely used during WW1 since telephone and telegraph technology was too new to be reliable. Though it occurred two...
