As we gazed across a flock of a few dozen pigeons perched neatly on the roof of the Porter Square T station, Mosco pointed out a juvenile pigeon right there among them, hiding in plain sight. She ...

And with pigeons living off the ground and garbage, they’re exposed to a wide variety of bacteria and gunk. Last week someone brought Swan two distressed juvenile pigeons in a box; one is pictured ...

To city dwellers, it might seem that pigeons multiply magically—all the birds flying around are fully grown. ... Still, you might have seen a juvenile pigeon and just not been aware of it.

Baby pigeons don't emerge until they're relatively big and look nearly identical to adults. ... the juvenile pigeons look more like adults than other birds when they leave the nest, she said.

That's why we don't notice juvenile pigeons as much. That's not true elsewhere. In China, for example, some people still pay over 100,000 euros for a good racing pigeon. Doves aren't special.