Band-tailed pigeons are quiet for a pigeon. Their gentle low-pitched cooing of long single and shorter double notes is most similar to the sounds of a mourning dove or great horned owl.

Ron Actis paced his back yard and scanned the skies above Kirker Pass for his pigeons racing home from Nevada. It was a 180-mile, four-hour-plus romp for the birds. It was an exhilarating and tortu… ...

The world has been without passenger pigeons since 1914. Now, scientists want to bring them back. Geneticist Ben Novak has embarked on the project and has begun collecting passenger pigeon DNA ...