Sometimes, a ruffle of feathers can say more about a bird's situation than its chirps, coos and caws. Take the crested pigeon. Its mere act of taking frantic flight is enough to alert its flock of ...

Many animals will sound an alarm to alert other members of their group of impending danger. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on November 9 have shown that crested pigeons do this in a ...

One of the remarkable abilities that birds possess is their ability to regenerate the feathers that they shed. Unlike human ...

Trevor Murray works for at the ANU and produced this research as part of their PhD. He received ANU's PhD fellowship funding to undertake this research. Crested pigeons are a common sight in many ...

It took 150 million years for feathered dinosaurs to master flight and become the birds we see overhead today. By 125 million years ago, the Mesozoic skies were full of birds. But many of them were ...

Many animals will sound an alarm to alert other members of their group of impending danger. Now, researchers have shown that crested pigeons do this in a surprisingly non-vocal way. One of their main ...