Amid spring’s profusion of birdsong, one of the most iconic voices is that of the mourning dove. It’s a familiar sound, in which an opening note swells into a higher second syllable, then falls back ...

As I gaze at the bird feeders outside my living room window in Decatur, three mourning doves swoop in. Two of them land beneath the feeders and start pecking at seeds that have spilled onto the ground ...

While southern New Mexico may not harbor any wild turtle-doves as called for in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" song, it is home to eight different species of doves and pigeons, six of which are native ...

FOUR PICTURES COMBO - A dove which was freed by children flanked by Pope Francis during the Angelus prayer, is attacked by a seagull in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014.

The irony was too much: When Pope Francis and two children released two white "peace doves" at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on Sunday, the doves were immediately attacked by other birds, ...

Come on birds, give peace a chance. Two white doves released by smiling children from a window above St. Peter’s Square were immediately attacked by other birds, turning Sunday services into an aerial ...

As the pandemic started hovering overhead this past March, life has only become more and more chaotic. Nothing has really seemed to get back to normal since then. It was sometime during those first ...

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 ...