When you think of a dove, what comes to mind? The crowned pigeon of New Guinea, largest dove in the world? The sparrow-sized ruddy ground dove? Or, perhaps one of the many colorful fruit doves ...

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 ...

The Socorro dove may look unassuming. With a fluffy brown coat and pink feet, the dove species could be mistaken for an average city pigeon by the untrained eye. But the Mexican birds are extinct in ...

Recently, our backyard revealed a “puddle” of feathers about a yard across. Best guess is that a hawk had caught and killed a mourning dove, and then proceeded to pluck feathers before flying away ...

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 ...

The mourning dove is native to Texas and gets its name from the soft, sad-sounding coo that usually only the male makes. What you may not know is that the mourning dove also has a non-verbal whistling ...