There are many reasons for a flight being delayed, but a pigeon on the loose in the plane's cabin isn't typically one of them. That’s exactly what happened, however, when a bird got caught inside an ...

All over Moscow, pigeons inflicted with an unconfirmed disease have been dropping like flies. In the moments before these feathered friends meet their pavement demise, they behave as if drugged, ...

Pigeons, those hardy urban survivalists, rarely evoke much sympathy in humans. But in the past week, many residents of the Russian capital, Moscow, have expressed alarm at the growing number of dead ...

Russian scientists have unveiled their plans to unleash an army of remote-controlled pigeons fitted with brain implants. A Kremlin-backed neurotechnology firm has claimed they are able to control live ...

Well, not exactly a pigeon. The Navy is experimenting with using helicopters to physically drop messages to other ships. In a recent test in the Persian Gulf, an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter dropped a ...

Monitoring programs for highly dangerous avian diseases in the Russian Federation from 2001 to 2009 detected 77 samples that were PCR positive for avian paramyxovirus serotype-1 (APMV-1) from sick or ...