Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. WALNUT CREEK — Strolling the sidewalks of Broadway Plaza, you may not notice the absence of one unwelcome pest — pigeons.

You might expect a troll to greet you at the mouth of the tunnel that channels San Luis Obispo Creek under the city, where pale sunlight cuts through shifting shadows to reveal the murky water inside.

A council’s plan to rid a city market of nuisance birds with a hawk is being scuppered by residents feeding the pigeons.

BILLINGS – If feral peafowl caused enough of a nuisance in 1990s Tampa Bay, Florida, you’d call Bryan Cleveland. “You’d have 150 peacocks in a very upper-class neighborhood,” he said. “And every ...

WOOSTER, Ohio (AP) — Love birds, beware: One Ohio county is planning to spike bird seed with birth control in hopes of keeping pigeons from despoiling the renovated ...