The suspected killing of up to 40 pigeons with rat poison is being investigated by police on the Isle of Man. The birds have been found dead around Douglas in recent weeks. Conservationists says ...

New York City’s celebrity owl Flaco was suffering from a severe pigeon-borne illness and high levels of rat poison when he crashed into a building and died last month, officials at the Bronx Zoo ...

"Often the offenders will get a pigeon or a pheasant - cut it open and rip out the flesh so the meat is exposed and sprinkle on some poison. "The poisons are often blue or green - or some other ...