The city of Albuquerque pays more than $45,000 a year to clean pigeon droppings off of buildings and streets, but decided that spending $4,500 to trap them and snap their necks was the better option.

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins. By Ben Crair If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city ...