A DUP Alderman has said the war is not over with marauding pigeons in a Co Down town square. Alderman Stephen McIlveen has spoken at Ards and North Down Borough Council in reaction to reports pigeons ...

The Irish Government has indicated that it wants public bodies to lead from the front on restoration activities. The BirdWatch Ireland Restoration Plan for birds identifies 9,000 hectares of habitat ...

As most farmland in Ireland is in private ownership, agri-environment schemes are the main way in which farmers can be incentivised to undertake measures to benefit farmland birds' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Painting by Miklós Barabás, 1843. Artistic rendering by Snopes.com. It is true that humans domesticated pigeons for centuries, and ...