Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

A "quirky, endlessly entertaining" look at the surprising history of the pigeon (Simon Winchester).



Domesticated since the dawn of man, pigeons have been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. They have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Charles Darwin relied heavily on pigeons to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. ...