Pigeon Facts

The smallest known non-avian dinosaur is Epidexipteryx, measuring just 11 inches long and weighing around 164 grams—about the size of a pigeon.

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.

In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.