As well as food and pets, domesticated pigeons are used as homing pigeons.

Feeding pigeons is prohibited.

Tom raises racing pigeons.

These are pigeons in Rotterdam.

The pigeons' feathers are white.

We are cooing like pigeons.

I enjoy feeding the pigeons.

Please don't feed the pigeons.

Did you see any pigeons?

I like to feed the pigeons.

We are aiming at the pigeons.

There were pigeons roosting in the dish.

Tom likes feeding the pigeons in the park.

Parasites Pigeons may harbour a diverse parasite fauna.

Pigeons feed on the ground in flocks or individually.

Each boulin is the lodging of a pair of pigeons.

For example, if 2 pigeons are randomly assigned to 4 pigeonholes, there is a 25 chance that at least one pigeonhole will hold more than one pigeon for 5 pigeons and 10 holes, that probability is 69.76 and for 10 pigeons and 20 holes it is about 93.45 .

There's a real bond that develops between this old man and these pigeons.

Consider the pigeon just a pigeon...There are lots of pigeons in Paris.

Feral pigeons are found in large numbers in cities and towns all over the world.

Strickland and Melville pointed out that the dodo was anatomically similar to pigeons in many features.

Other pigeons also have bare skin around their eyes, almost reaching their beak, as in dodos.

But even if the number of pigeons does not exceed the number of pigeonholes ( n m ), due to the random nature of the assignment of pigeons to pigeonholes there is often a substantial chance that clashes will occur.

Eye colour of the pigeon is generally orange but a few pigeons may have white grey eyes.

So I kind of came up with this old guy who spends his life looking after sick pigeons.

They were in the past also used as carrier pigeons, and so called war pigeons have played significant roles during wartime, with many pigeons having received bravery awards and medals for their services in saving hundreds of human lives including, notably, the British pigeon Cher Ami who received the Croix de Guerre for her heroic actions during World War I, and the Irish Paddy and the American G.I.

The rock dove ( Columba livia ) or rock pigeon is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).

Pigeons were found to be resistant or minimally susceptible to other strains of avian influenza, such as the H7N7.

It has also been suggested that the dodo might have eaten crabs and shellfish, like their relatives the crowned pigeons.

Pigeons are able to dip their bills into the water and drink continuously without having to tilt their heads back.

Pigeons, especially homing or carrier breeds, are well known for their ability to find their way home from long distances.

For n m (more pigeons than pigeonholes) it is one, in which case it coincides with the ordinary pigeonhole principle.

Strickland stated that although not identical, these birds shared many distinguishing features of the leg bones, otherwise known only in pigeons.

The hippoboscid fly Pseudolynchia canariensis is a typical blood sucking ectoparasite of pigeons, found only in tropical and sub tropical regions.

So at least you'll admit that if fruit flies are not as clever as mice, they're at least as clever as pigeons.

We can go back to using carrier pigeons. At the least, they are more guaranteed and faster than the Internet we have.

Depictions of the large crop hinted at a relationship with pigeons, in which this feature is more developed than in other birds.

It was only slightly smaller than the dodo and the solitaire, and it too is thought to have been related to the crowned pigeons.

Many of the skeletal features that distinguish the dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire, its closest relative, from pigeons have been attributed to their flightlessness.

Joe, who both received the Dickin Medal, amongst 32 pigeons to receive this medallion, for their gallant and brave actions during World War II.

Poultry such as ducks, geese, and pigeons were captured in nets and bred on farms, where they were force fed with dough to fatten them.

Visitors come to the British Museum, and they say, 'Let us see all these varieties of pigeons where is the tumbler, where is the pouter?

Maybe it has to go back and live with family members that's not always a good thing, but it does sort of bring pigeons together again.

The legs of the dodo were generally more similar to those of terrestrial pigeons than of other birds, both in their scales and in their skeletal features.

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed that dodos were ground pigeons, based on studies of a dodo skull he had discovered in the royal Danish collection at Copenhagen.