An Indian fantail -- one of 350 rock pigeon breeds -- displays a type of head crest known as a peak crest. Researchers from the University of Utah and from China, Denmark and Texas identified a single ...

A collage of four breeds of pigeons shows two with scaled feet (top) and two with feathered feet, known as muffs (bottom). Top left is a racing homer. Top right is an English Pouter. Bottom left is an ...

Along with the Brunner pouters, flying rollers, Chinese owls and Portuguese tumblers, Fred Herr of Willow Street had brought his Mini-Indian fantails to the old fire hall in Manchester, York County.

A change in a single gene ruffles the feathers of all pigeons with collars and crests, a new study shows. Many breeds of rock pigeons have these crests, even though they come from different branches ...