The RSPCA said that while the use of netting to prevent birds nesting on properties is legal, it "could become illegal if ...

LINDENHURST, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- An effort to protect pedestrians from pigeon droppings is creating quite a mess on Long Island. As CBS2's Jennifer McLogan reported, the Long Island Rail Road put up ...

A street sweeper employed by the Doe Fund, a charity that employs homeless New Yorkers to clean city streets, picked up a $2,500 bonus last month by defending the pigeons on the Upper East Side.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Pigeons are disappearing from New York City streets, but not for natural reasons. As CBS2's Valerie Castro reported, some say the birds meet a violent death across state lines ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A building on the Upper East Side will take down a web of anti-bird netting around its scaffolding after a group of animal advocates claimed the netting was a ...

CITY HALL — Animal rights activists staged a small protest before the City Council meeting Tuesday in opposition to a plan to install netting underneath the Santa Monica Pier in an effort to prevent ...

A net installed on the Bronx courthouse to stop pigeons from pooping on the windows has turned into a deathtrap for the much-maligned birds. And it’s actually ruffled some feathers. At least five ...

One lapse of judgment, and one small slip, ended the life of Natalia Jimenez. Jimenez, 15, of Chelsea, had been hanging out with pals on the roof of a building on 10th Avenue Friday night when a ...

A proposal to use netting to protect a medieval monument from pigeons has been formally rejected by Historic England, the government's conservation authority. The Grade II listed Butter Cross in ...