Rock Doves Preferred Predictive Information Despite a Lower Food Payoff
Seven rock doves preferred an informative option that paid on 20% of trials over a non-informative option that…
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Rotavirus A Antibodies Were Common in Feral Pigeon Samples but Rare in Wood-Pigeon Samples in Germany
A German study detected rotavirus A-reactive antibodies in 79.2% of free-ranging feral pigeons and 77.0% of domestic pigeons,…
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Pigeon Paramyxovirus-1 Was Confirmed in 10 of 39 Diseased Pigeons From Egypt
A 2026 field investigation confirmed pigeon paramyxovirus-1 RNA in 10 of 39 domestic pigeons showing neurological or gastrointestinal…
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New Shiqi Pigeon Genome Placed 97.8% of Its Sequence on 41 Chromosomes
A chromosome-level genome from a female Shiqi pigeon in Zhongshan, China spans about 1.24 billion DNA bases, places…
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Mitochondrial Respiration Rose 58–87% After Homing Flights in Pigeons
In homing pigeons from Guidonia, Italy, three measures of red-blood-cell mitochondrial respiration rose by 58.2–87.3% after flight. Males…
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Common Wood-Pigeon Was Negatively Associated With Settlements in High Atlas Valleys
Across 179 survey points in two Central High Atlas valleys in Morocco, researchers recorded 1,073 pigeons and doves.…
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Homing Pigeon Eyes Diverged During Flight but Converged Toward the Perch During Landing
Onboard cameras showed that homing pigeon eyes drifted slowly outward during forward flight in step with optic flow,…
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98.6% of the White King Pigeon Genome Assembly Was Anchored at Chromosome Level
Researchers built a 1.09-Gb chromosome-level reference genome from a female White King pigeon. They then resequenced 64 pigeons…
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Pigeons Kept Their Eyes Nearly Fixed Within the Head During Flight
Head-mounted eye tracking showed that after take-off pigeons strongly reduced eye movement and repeatedly returned to nearly the…
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Homing Pigeons Used Distant Alpine Peaks to Navigate Above Thick Fog
Experienced homing pigeons released above thick ground fog navigated efficiently when distant Alpine peaks were visible, but became…
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Depleting Liver Macrophages Disrupted Pigeon Navigation Under Overcast Skies
A 2026 Science study identified superparamagnetic macrophages in pigeon livers. All 16 controls homed under complete cloud cover,…
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Long-term Cultured Rock Dove Germ-cell Precursors Still Reached Developing Gonads
Researchers established the first successful long-term culture of rock dove primordial germ cells. The cells retained germline markers…
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Simple Route Averaging Was Sufficient to Reproduce Collective Improvements in Homing Pigeons
A 2026 modelling study found that simply averaging the preferred routes of paired homing pigeons closely reproduced the…
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Rock Doves on Cyprus Were at Least Semi-domesticated by Around 1400 BCE, Study Suggests
Late Bronze Age rock-dove bones from Hala Sultan Tekke included juveniles and a largely uniform stable-isotope signal linked…
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Seasonal Microbiome Shifts Were Not Matched by Detectable Plant-Diet Changes in Groningen Pigeons
Feral pigeons sampled in Groningen in winter and summer showed seasonal changes in cloacal bacterial communities, while no…
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All 40 Lisbon Feral Pigeons Carried Haemoproteus columbae
All 40 feral pigeons sampled at two Lisbon sites carried Haemoproteus columbae; four genetic lineages were detected, including…
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Chlamydia psittaci Was Detected in 20.6% of Brno Feral Pigeon Dropping Samples
A Brno survey detected Chlamydia psittaci in 20.6% of pooled feral-pigeon dropping samples. Positive flocks showed clear geographic…
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White-Winged Dove Had an Estimated Mean Density of 744 Birds per km² Along the Sinaloa River
A 2026 study along the Sinaloa River estimated a mean density of 744.03 white-winged doves per km². Density…
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69 of 107 Domestic Pigeons in Urban El Kharga Carried Cestodes
A 2026 parasite survey of 107 domestic pigeons sampled from urban El Kharga in Egypt’s New Valley found…
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Bacterial Culture Was Positive in 51.7% of Tissue Samples from Feral Pigeons in Egypt
Bacterial culture was positive in 51.7% of 240 liver, lung and intestinal tissue samples from 80 clinically healthy…
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