Alberta homing pigeons can race up to 800 kilometres during the summer season, travelling at an average speed of 72 km/h in a race. Like any athlete, a racing pigeon requires a meticulous training ...

The following pictures are common birds from the central area of Alberta during winter. Downy Woodpecker. Kyle Ashmead. White-breasted Nuthatch. Kyle Ashmead. English Sparrow. Kyle Ashmead.

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The images in this story may be disturbing to some readers. CALGARY – Several birds at a central Alberta wildlife rehabilitation centre were found shot and killed Friday ...

In 2015, more than 1,100 of the birds were found across Alberta. Roughly the size of a pigeon, the doves are a tawny beige with a delicate collar of black feather that wraps around the back of ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --A visitor to an Alberta strip mall snapped photos of an unusual fellow window-shopper: a game bird native to the Middle East. Keegan Van Rooyen said she took photos of the unusual ...

The Breeding Bird Survey puts 70,000 blackpoll warblers in Alberta; Solymos reckons 1.3 million. Article content Jeff Wells, head of boreal conservation for the Audubon Society, calls Solymos’s ...

Duong Bach carefully removes a plump grey pigeon from its cage and lets it fly into the woods in a rural area of central Alberta. Bach will wait anxiously for the bird to return home to his backyard ...