Dovecotes are ancient structures that have been used by man over the centuries to provide a variety of products from food to gunpowder. But how many are still lurking around? IN the 17th Century there ...

While pigeons don't pose an especial health risk to the general population, people who have a lot of contact with them and their excrement - professionally or otherwise - should nonetheless take ...

Today city-dwellers tend to think of pigeons as “rats with wings”—pests that are good for nothing but tarnishing buildings and spreading disease. In fact, the pigeons strutting the streets today are ...

I WAS surprised when calling in Holy Trinity Church in Woodland Road, Darlington, on Friday to notice what appears to be a dovecote down a back lane opposite. It's the back lane of the houses on ...

PETA have offered a dovecote to St Mary Redcliffe Church after learning the Church will use "a mild shock" on pigeons to get rid of their pigeon problem. It all comes as the Church were given the go ...

Oumar Johnson ducks to enter his cramped dovecote, built atop a city apartment block, and snatches his favourite pigeon from dozens of birds fluttering and cooing around him. "This pigeon is called ...

Racing pigeon owners are strongly advised to keep their champions warm in their dovecotes as Belgian authorities allow pigeon hunting for a three-week period to limit the proliferation of the birds.