Here in Marin, we have four kinds of doves and pigeons. Really, these are all members of the same family — “dove” and “pigeon” are not strictly scientific words and are applied without any perfectly ...

There is a Ukrainian folk tale about a little girl who, on the first cold morning of winter, found a nearly frozen dove huddling in snow. She took it indoors to warm and feed. Later she went back ...

The white-winged dove is bigger and blockier than the mourning dove with a rounded tail and distinct white chevrons on its wings. 1409 W 35th N Plenty of lessons are learned in Texas dove fields each ...

One of the most commonly sighted backyard birds in North America is the mourning dove (Zenaida macroura). It is very likely you have seen them sitting on a power line or even feeding at the park. This ...

A Baltimore oriole nest made of mostly horse hair, and only horse hair, is the best bird nest I have ever seen. It was found in a tree in the yard of a friend. Alex, who showed me the nest, lives on ...

A burglary in the Bahamas and the threat of a volcano eruption on the island of Guadeloupe set in motion one of the fastest and most widespread invasions of a non-native wildlife species — a bird, in ...

Michigan has two invasive birds, the mute swan and the Eurasian collared dove. One of them is described as “one of the world’s most aggressive waterfowl species” -- I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the ...