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 ...

It’s that time of year when the garden seems to have been invaded by an army of pigeons and wood pigeons - and they leave their mark everywhere. From pecking at your favourite plants to leaving their ...

This story has been updated to include comments from the South Florida Water Management District. Wading birds across the Everglades had a rough couple of years with annual nesting over the last two ...